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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Quality or state of being strict.

Noun.

Closeness; tightness; opposed to laxity.

Exactness in the observance of rules, laws, rites and the like; rigorous accuracy; nice regularity or precision.

I could not grant too much or distrust too little to men that pretended singular piety and religious strictness.

Rigor; severity.

These commissioners proceeded with such strictness and severity as did much obscure the kings mercy.