stricture

[ strik-cher ]
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noun
  1. a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism: The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's style.

  2. an abnormal contraction of any passage or duct of the body.

  1. Phonetics. a constriction of airflow in the vocal tract in the production of speech.

  2. a restriction.

  3. Archaic. the act of enclosing or binding tightly.

  4. Obsolete. strictness.

Origin of stricture

1
1350–1400; Middle English <Late Latin strictūra tightening, equivalent to Latin strict(us) (see strict) + -ūra-ure

Other words from stricture

  • strictured, adjective
  • non·stric·tured, adjective

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How to use stricture in a sentence

  • Strictures of the male urethra from chronic gonorrhoeal inflammation often require major surgical operations for relief.

  • And he had borne with patience all her imperious strictures and had obeyed all her crazy and jealous whims.

    Jaffery | William J. Locke
  • To defend poetic against the strictures of his master Aristotle reads more into the word than that.

  • It began, "Those body-snatchers" and continued through half a column of such scorching strictures as only Mark Twain could devise.

  • It 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

stricture

/ (ˈstrɪktʃə) /


noun
  1. a severe criticism; censure

  2. pathol an abnormal constriction of a tubular organ, structure, or part

  1. obsolete severity

Origin of stricture

1
C14: from Latin strictūra contraction; see strict

Derived forms of stricture

  • strictured, adjective

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