exacting
adjective
rigid or severe in demands or requirements.
exactingness
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a word derived from
exacting.
Example Sentences
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His exactingness and workaholism have given the franchise an uplift that is hard to measure but undeniably impactful.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2020
The exactingness of the desire for public spectacles increased, even in secondary cities.
From Characters and events of Roman History by Frances Lance Ferrero
Stephen so thoroughly understood this exactingness on her part that he adjusted his life to it, as a conscientious school-boy adjusts his to bells and signals, and never trespassed knowingly.
From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Helen Hunt Jackson
There is a faculty of the human mind to which phrenologists have given the name of Ideality, which is at the foundation of this exactingness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
In the second we find a jealousy which has no love in it; which means the exactingness of self-love, and the tyranny of possession.
From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
