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strictness - What does it mean?

Definition of 'strictness'

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
  • :Discipline calls for a certain strictness .
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill|part=3 |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.