STRICTURE
stricture
Noun
- a rule restricting behaviour or action
- 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 sternly critical remark or review
- abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
- strictness
- A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.
- a stroke; a glance; a touch
- the degree of contact, in consonants
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