Severity of life or behaviour; inflexibility of principle or virtue.
| 单词 | θ179133 |
| 释义 | society > morality > virtue > [noun] > conformity to high standards (9) strictness1578 Severity of life or behaviour; inflexibility of principle or virtue. stricturea1616 Strictness. Puritan consciencea1649 a strict individual conscience requiring high moral standards; cf. nonconformist conscience n. at nonconformist, n. adj.compounds. New Englandism1844 Behaviour or temperament considered characteristic of New Englanders; (originally) spec. New England theology (see New England, n. 2). Subcategories:— excessive (5) |
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