List of synonyms from "stretching" to synonyms from "striking"
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Definition of the day : « strictness »
- noun severity
- 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