strictness
- a word derived from strict.
Example Sentences
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As to Strictness of Religion and the Love of Liberty, they had all along been the darling Pretences of the party he engaged in.
From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard
Strictness of true practical Christianity, 105, 106. — of our system, objected to, as not suited to the state of the world, 280, 281. — the charge refuted, 281, 282.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William
On the prevailing inadequate Conceptions concerning the Nature and the Strictness of Practical Christianity.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William
All Strictness of Behaviour is so unmercifully laugh'd at in our Age, that the other much worse Extreme is the more common Folly.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Justice and Temperance require Professors as grave and solemnn, and demand as much Strictness and Observance as any other Virtues.
From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard