stricture

CEFRC1

/ˈstɹɪkt͡ʃəː/

noun

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noun
A strong criticism or a narrow passage in the body.
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noun
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A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.

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The new law places a severe stricture on the use of the funds.
I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.
1931 Edgar Wallace: Again Sanders "That is a matter for you to discuss with the Government," said Sanders, in his iciest tone. "I am only authorized to collect twenty-eight thousand. I will note your strictures and report them to Whitehall." "I'm passing no s...

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To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances.
1855, Anthony Trollope, chapter 20, in The Warden
Even venerable print publications seem to accept that old strictures no longer apply when they move online.
2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 6, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN
For many young people throughout Britain in the 1970s, Northern Soul became a truly alternative lifestyle with the rites and values of the scene replacing many of the traditional strictures of society.
2013, Elaine Constantine, Gareth Sweeney, Northern Soul: An Illustrated History, Random House, →ISBN, page 12
When he read the poem to his parents, upon its conclusion, both were much impressed by it, though his father made severe strictures upon its lack of polish, its terminal inconcision, and its vagueness of thought.
1889, William Sharp, chapter 2, in Life of Robert Browning
Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation.
1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XVIII, in The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC

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Borrowed from Late Latin strictūra, from Latin strictus.