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strictness
Part of speech: NounThe condition or quality of being strict; closeness; exactness in the observance of laws, rites, and the like; nice regularity or precision; harshness; severity.
Usage examples "strictness":- The main foundation of his system was strictness. - "Best Russian Short Stories", Various.
- To discover whether a man is temperate or not in anything, you must first know the ends at which he aims; and then the strictness with which he uses the means that best further those ends, and foregoes the things that would hinder them. - "The Five Great Philosophies of Life", William de Witt Hyde.
- Previous to 1870 the law of primogeniture was as much respected in Rome as in England, and was carried out with considerably greater strictness. - "Don Orsino", F. Marion Crawford.