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stringent

[strin-juh nt]
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adjective
  1. rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
  2. compelling, constraining, or urgent: stringent necessity.
  3. convincing or forcible: stringent arguments.
  4. (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
Related formsstrin·gent·ly, adverbnon·strin·gent, adjectiveun·strin·gent, adjectiveun·strin·gent·ly, adverb

Synonyms

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1. restrictive. See strict. 3. forceful, powerful, effective.

Antonyms

1. flexible.
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Examples from the Web for stringently

Historical Examples

  • Faithfully and stringently carried out, it might have saved the South.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals

    T. C. DeLeon

  • The prohibition was stringently, indeed at one time, ruthlessly, enforced.

    The Light of Scarthey

    Egerton Castle

  • The elk are in danger of becoming extinct if they are not stringently guarded.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life

    William T. Hornaday

  • Contrary to wont, the ban against Spinoza was stringently enforced, to keep young people from his heresies.

  • All admit that the unfair competitive methods described in an earlier part of this chapter should be stringently prohibited.

    Distributive Justice

    John A. (John Augustine) Ryan

British Dictionary definitions for stringently

stringent

adjective
  1. requiring strict attention to rules, procedure, detail, etc
  2. finance characterized by or causing a shortage of credit, loan capital, etc
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Derived Formsstringency, nounstringently, adverb

Word Origin

C17: from Latin stringere to bind
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Word Origin and History for stringently

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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