stringent
[strin-juh nt]
- rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
- compelling, constraining, or urgent: stringent necessity.
- convincing or forcible: stringent arguments.
- (of the money market) characterized by a shortage in money for loan or investment purposes; tight.
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Origin of stringent
1595–1605; < Latin stringent- (stem of stringēns), present participle of stringere to draw tight; see -ent
Synonyms
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1. flexible.
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Contemporary Examples
Yet we do have stringent regulations regarding adoption in this country.
And is politics really cleaner when stringent restrictions are put into place?
Armstrong and others have made the point that pro cycling has the most stringent drug testing of any professional sport.
They must do this without partisan bias, but with a stringent sense of enforcing and further defining the law.
Expressing outrage, the lawmakers called for stringent punishment.
Historical Examples
The army was to be reinforced and a stringent conscription was talked of.
Shoulder-StrapsHenry Morford
These stringent measures were not, however, put into effect at once.
The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus VasaPaul Barron Watson
The stringent protectionists and the free-traders strike hands.
My Bondage and My FreedomFrederick Douglass
The time has not yet come for stringent orders in these cases.
Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877James Kennedy
Lastly, we have here a piece of stringent practical direction.
Expositions of Holy ScriptureAlexander Maclaren
stringent
- requiring strict attention to rules, procedure, detail, etc
- finance characterized by or causing a shortage of credit, loan capital, etc
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Word Origin
C17: from Latin stringere to bind
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Word Origin and History for stringent
adj.
c.1600, "astringent," especially with reference to taste, from Latin stringentem (nominative stringens), present participle of stringere "to compress, contract, bind or draw tight" (see strain). Of regulations, procedures, etc., 1846.
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