Synonyms for strictness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : strikt

Phonetic Transcription : strɪkt

Top 10 synonyms for strictness

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Définition of strictness

Origin : 1590s, "narrow, drawn in, small," from Latin strictus "drawn together, tight, rigid," past participle of stringere "draw or bind tight" (see strain (v.)). The sense of "stringent and rigorous" (of law) is first found in 1570s; of qualities or conditions generally, 1580s.

noun severity

Example sentences :

You know how I often rebelled against the strictness of life here.
Extract from : « The Hunted Outlaw » by Anonymous

In strictness, the soul does not respect men as it respects itself.
Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Probably this strictness of discipline was a good thing for the small boy.
Extract from : « Herbert Hoover » by Vernon Kellogg

In strictness, style has only one virtue, clearness; only one vice, obscurity.
Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper

I hate all kind of strictness, and duty, and self-denying, and that kind of thing.
Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope

Believe that my strictness shall endure no longer than is necessary.
Extract from : « The False Chevalier » by William Douw Lighthall

He did not punish capriciously, nor terrify them by anything worse than his strictness.
Extract from : « The Crofton Boys » by Harriet Martineau

He was not in strictness a prisoner; but who could trust to the caprice of these lawless men?
Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli

She ruled her brood with the utmost coolness and strictness.
Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin

This is noteworthy; this is right: yet in strictness it is only an illusion.
Extract from : « Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History » by Thomas Carlyle

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