stringency

[strin-juh n-see]

noun, plural strin·gen·cies.

stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
strictness; closeness; rigor: the stringency of school discipline.
tightness; straitness: stringency in the money market.

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Origin of stringency

First recorded in 1835–45; string(ent) + -ency

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Related Words for stringencies

harshness, strictness, toughness, sternness, sharpness, cruelty, acerbity, rigor, austerity, grimness, hardness, rigidity, unkindness

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Historical Examples of stringencies

Not that stringencies upon the Press please me—no, nor arrests and imprisonments.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But I am wandering from the point, just as I yearn to wander from all the stringencies of life this summer.
The Garden, You, and I
Mabel Osgood Wright

Word Origin and History for stringencies

stringency

n.

1844, from stringent + -cy.

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