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Webster 1913 Edition
Strictness
Strict′ness
,Noun.
Quality or state of being strict.
Webster 1828 Edition
Strictness
STRICTNESS
,Noun.
1.
Closeness; tightness; opposed to laxity.2.
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.
3.
Rigor; severity.These commissioners proceeded with such strictness and severity as did much obscure the kings mercy.
Definition 2024
strictness
strictness
English
Noun
strictness (countable and uncountable, plural strictnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
- Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
- I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
- (countable) The result or product of being strict.