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    strictness


    1. is that it's their strictness that’s driving people to heresy


    2. Jean, who had heard of the strictness of these so-called


    3. They differ in strictness and in severity of punishments, and there are acts which are forbidden in some places, while being allowed, or even officially encouraged, in others


    4. McPhee and his strictness, and knew how far to go with him


    5. Oedipus complex applies with complete strictness to the male child only, and that we


    6. male students, she was informed that her strictness and


    7. Since she had been very small she had been troubled by Fernanda’s strictness, her custom of deciding in favor of extremes; and she would have been capable of a much more difficult sacrifice than the clavichord lessons merely not to run up against her intransigence


    8. In spite of Fernanda’s strictness, they would splash in the puddles in the courtyard, catch lizards and dissect them, and pretend that they were poisoning the soup with dust from butterfly wings when Santa Sofía de la Piedad was not looking Úrsula was their most amusing plaything


    9. In addition, Christian girls were prevented from marrying pagans, Jews or heretics; yet for all the strictness, slavery was still sanctioned


    10. It wasn't, George was sure, from any strictness of principle or wounded love that she had divorced him, but simply because the opportunity was too good to be missed for getting rid of her little Jew

    11. hand with a strictness, not conveying brute force, rather a


    12. The famous German obsession with organization and logical mathematical strictness of rules, which had been lacking in the short-lived democratic Weimar Republic was reinstated so that everything was ‘ein richtig’ or correct… ‘right’, everything in its place where it ought to be; as it had been before with the Kaiser as their national mascot and everyone in their little niches of hierarchical Prussian society


    13. ’ The object, as we see, is reached at one time by idealism, at another by materialism; at one time by laxity and a cry of freedom, at another by an extravagant and cruel orthodoxy; at one time by despotism, at another by revolution; at one time by excessive puritanic strictness, at another by all the genialities of an 'enlightened self-indulgence


    14. The coarse strength of a military government was not favourable to purity and refinement; and the excessive strictness of some regulations seems to have produced a reaction


    15. First, we may observe that the relations of the sexes supposed by him are the reverse of licentious: he seems rather to aim at an impossible strictness


    16. pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have


    17. through the want of occasions in the strictness of his home breeding, and


    18. The most perfect tranquillity was restored, and the vigilance of the custom-house officers was redoubled, and their strictness was increased at this time, in consequence of the fair at Beaucaire


    19. The belief was a favorite one with our forefathers, as betokening that their infant commonwealth was under a celestial guardianship of peculiar intimacy and strictness


    20. But what was yet more surprising, the owner of this natural curiosity, through the want of occasions in the strictness of his home breeding, and the little time he had been in town not having afforded him one; was hitherto an absolute stranger, in practice at least, to the use of all that manhood he was so nobly stocked with; and it now fell to my lot to stand his first trial of it, if I could resolve to run the risks of its disproportion to that tender part of me, which such an oversized machine was very fit to lay in ruins

    21. In these matters he was conscious that his life would bear the closest scrutiny; and perhaps the consciousness encouraged a little defiance towards the critical strictness of persons whose celestial intimacies seemed not to improve their domestic manners, and whose lofty aims were not needed to account for their actions


    22. But Will's articles and speeches naturally recommended him in families which the new strictness of party division had marked off on the side of Reform


    23. I was the youngest Son o’ Seven—an’ a Rebel from Birth—which me Mother’s Strictness only serv’d to inflame


    24. Because of the strictness of the Act, investors woke up to the fact that the industry could be trusted; fund investors would get a fair shake


    25. overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds: his office of inspector, too, was shared by those who knew how to combine reason with strictness, comfort with economy, compassion with uprightness


    26. Preserve with strictness


    27. This strictness was occasioned by the fact that an important prison official was expected to pass that way


    28. The strictness of the inspector was chiefly due to the fact that an epidemic of typhus had broken out in the prison, owing to twice the number of persons that it was intended for being crowded in it


    29. Yes, I know his stu … his strictness, his conservatism in these matters


    30. And to do that, order and strictness are essential

    31. The laws should be executed with the greatest strictness; and it was always wise to take time by the forelock


    32. I must have administered my intentions with strictness; for, presently, she said, suppressing the suspicion of a yawn: “Are you so very tired? Am I such dreadfully slow company?”


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    Synonyms for "strictness"

    sternness strictness stringency

    "strictness" definitions

    conscientious attention to rules and details


    uncompromising resolution