stringency
[ strin-juhn-see ]
/ ˈstrɪn dʒən si /
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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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Example sentences from the Web for stringency
Not that stringencies upon the Press please me—no, nor arrests and imprisonments.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II|Elizabeth Barrett BrowningBut 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 WrightTheir sympathies were with him, but they felt unable to cope with the iron stringencies of the time.
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