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stricture
[ strik-cher ]
noun
- a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism:
The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's style.
- an abnormal contraction of any passage or duct of the body.
- Phonetics. a constriction of airflow in the vocal tract in the production of speech.
- a restriction.
- Archaic. the act of enclosing or binding tightly.
- Obsolete. strictness.
stricture
/ ˈٰɪʃə /
noun
- a severe criticism; censure
- pathol an abnormal constriction of a tubular organ, structure, or part
- obsolete.severity
Derived Forms
- ˈٰٳܰ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ٰtܰ adjective
- non·ٰtܰ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of stricture1
Word History and Origins
Origin of stricture1
Example Sentences
Mina’s father flouted strictures; Sade’s mother subjugated herself to them — that is, until Sade went to jail on a serious felony and compassion for her daughter awakened her long-dormant maternal loyalty.
Repeating a theme, McMahon said it would be her intention to follow the law, which includes the Constitution’s stricture that Congress controls the purse strings.
Kinch seemed in the hold of a dark nostalgia — as if he was wrestling with the monotony of civilian life, with the new strictures he faced since turning in his badge.
She accepted those strictures even as her career leaned into fearless, messy provocations.
Ross invites us to unlearn the complacent strictures of cinema he never bothered to absorb.
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