STRICTURE

stricture

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. a sternly critical remark or review
  3. abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
  4. strictness
    A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.
  5. a stroke; a glance; a touch
  6. the degree of contact, in consonants


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