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strictness

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being strict.
    uncountable
  2. The state or quality of being strict
  3. The result or product of being strict.
    countable
  4. The result or product of being strict

Equivalents

Españolestrictezrigor
DeutschStrenge
العربيةالصرامةتصميم
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Examples

“Discipline calls for a certain strictness.”
“I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force⟳ of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love⟳, I could have⟳ wished to have⟳ held up.”

Fanny Hill

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

stricto sensu strictosamide strictosidine Stricture strictureplasty Strictures

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