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strictness|ˈstrɪktnɪs|
[-ness.]
The quality or condition of being strict.
†1. In physical senses: Narrowness, straitness; tightness, close compression. Obs.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Strictnes, narrownes or smalnes. 1605in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 372 That strictnes of the gate that leadeth into blisse. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 193 They are repleated with grosse humors with a naturall strictnes of the veines. 1709Phil. Trans. XXVII. 73 When their Force is inhibited by the strictness of the Pores, they are unable to remove.
†2. Closeness (of friendship or intimacy). Obs.
c1614Cornwallis in Gutch Collect. Cur. I. 138 He desired as great a strictness, and nearness of amity and alliance, as might be, between the Crowns of England, and Spain.
3. Severity of life or behaviour; inflexibility of principle or virtue.
1578Lyly Euphues Wks. 1902 I. 315 Thou hast therefore.. great cause to reioyce, that God by punishment hath compelled thee to stricktnesse of lyfe. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. ii. i. (1619) D 3 b, Evad. Alas Amintor thinkst thou I forbeare To sleepe with thee, because I haue put on A maidens strictnesse. 1650T. Hubbert Pill Formality 52 They can change their habits of strickness into a habit of looseness and profaneness. 1756M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitland Club) 175 All the nuns are English, of the order of the Recolly, who are but a degree above the Capucines for strickness. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Family 37 The governess was a French woman, strongly recommended for the strictness of her principles. a1901W. Bright Age of Fathers (1903) I. ii. 18 A genuine enthusiasm for Christian strictness.
4. Severity, rigour, stringency (of laws, enactments, obligation, judgement, discipline, etc.).
1602Rowlands Greene's Ghost (1872) 9 They will vrge the strictnesse of their oath, and the danger of the law in such cases of concealement. 1660Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 359 The strictness of the Lord's day was mitigated. 1699T. Baker Refl. Learn. iii. 22 Priscian himself..notwithstanding his strictness in giving Rules..has much ado to preserve himself from Barbarism. a1716South Serm. (1727) VI. 430 They never understood the fiery Strictness of the Law, nor the Spirituality of the Gospel. 1861Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 47 Peace and order were maintained by police regulations of German minuteness and strictness. 1909Blackw. Mag. Mar. 311/2 The strictness of the Jain observances varies a great deal, according to the sect.
5. Closeness of watch or scrutiny.
1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 510 In consequence of this intimation, Pierre Landart was watched with the greatest strictness.
6. Rigorous accuracy or precision in statement, interpretation, investigation, and the like.
1638Sanderson Serm., Ad Aulam vii. (1681) II. 97 Divine (especially Prophetical) expressions, are not ever tied to such strictnesses. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. vii, I..gave to every point a more favourable turn, by many degrees, than the strictness of truth would allow. 1787J. Mitford Plead. Suits Chanc. (ed. 2) 232 In pleading there must in general be the same strictness in equity as at law. 1885Law Rep., 28 Chanc. Div. 97 A clause which this Court has always been in the habit of construing with the greatest strictness.
b. Phr. in strictness: taken or understood strictly; according to a strict conception, definition, or interpretation. More explicitly in strictness of speech, strictness of law, etc.
1641Wilkins Math. Magick ii. i. (1648) 145 But in its strictnesse and propriety, it is onely appliable unto fresh inventions. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 135 In cases wherein things in conscience ought to be done, yet for want of some formalities or niceties they cannot in strictness of law be exacted. a1691Boyle Chr. Virtuoso ii. Wks. 1772 VI. 748, I chose to take in..several that perhaps did not in strictness belong to the Christian Virtuoso. 1692Atterbury Serm. (Ps. l. 14) (1726) I. 7 Praise and Thanksgiving do, in Strictness of Speech, signify things somewhat different. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xliv. 188 Dr. Herschel even goes so far as to suppose that there is not, in strictness of speaking, one fixed star in the heavens. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 639 She was undoubtedly guilty of what in strictness is a capital crime. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 6 The term Post-pliocene ought in strictness to include all geological monuments posterior in date to the Pliocene. 1870Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 2) I. App. R. 595 Neither of these Kings were, in strictness of speech, deposed. |