(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action Example: For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology Example: I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.
A sternly critical remark or review
Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
Strictness
A stroke; a glance; a touch
The degree of contact, in consonants
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