Violence, harm; harshness, harsh treatment; severity, strictness, rigour.

Strict sense or interpretation; precision, exactness; (in later use also) the quality or condition of being highly detailed, accurate, and thorough.

Strictness in matters of thought or intellect; rigid accuracy or exactness; undeviating conformity to truth or fact. Also plural instances of this.

Rigorous accuracy or precision in statement, interpretation, investigation, and the like.