stricture
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.
Origin of stricture
1Other words from stricture
- strictured, adjective
- non·stric·tured, adjective
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How to use stricture in a sentence
But Liberty says that privacy strictures prevent it from providing any details.
Alleged U.Va. Abductor Accused of Rape at Christian College | Michael Daly | September 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOnce again, this may seem trivial to an outsider, but it is almost shocking to anyone familiar with the strictures of Jewish law.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Israel’s Pragmatic Kingmaker | Jay Michaelson | October 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTShe continues even now to dress in keeping with Muslim strictures whenever she ventures out.
Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Widow, Wants Nothing to Do With His Corpse | Michael Daly | May 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDay “tried endlessly to correct Esther to meet his strictures,” Moore writes.
Where Proust lays strictures, they fall upon the civilians at home.
Strictures of the male urethra from chronic gonorrhoeal inflammation often require major surgical operations for relief.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyAnd he had borne with patience all her imperious strictures and had obeyed all her crazy and jealous whims.
Jaffery | William J. LockeTo defend poetic against the strictures of his master Aristotle reads more into the word than that.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance | Donald Lemen ClarkIt began, "Those body-snatchers" and continued through half a column of such scorching strictures as only Mark Twain could devise.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineIt will instruct you to curb those unguarded movements which lay you open to the strictures of others.
Camilla | Fanny Burney
British Dictionary definitions for stricture
/ (ˈstrɪktʃə) /
a severe criticism; censure
pathol an abnormal constriction of a tubular organ, structure, or part
obsolete severity
Origin of stricture
1Derived forms of stricture
- strictured, adjective
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