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Strictness.

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Definitions

  1. n. Strictness.
  2. n. A stroke; a glance; a touch.
  3. n. A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
  4. n. A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
  5. n. abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
  6. n. severe criticism
  7. A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf.Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, andSpasmodic. Arbuthnot.