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Definition of strictness

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noun

(uncountable)The state or quality of being strict.

“Discipline calls for a certain strictness.”
“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.”

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noun

(uncountable)The state or quality of being strict.

“Discipline calls for a certain strictness.”
“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.”
(countable)The result or product of being strict.

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From strict + -ness.

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