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stricture en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈstɹɪkt͡ʃəː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈstɹɪkt͡ʃɚ/ (Canadian, General-American, Standard)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈstɹ̝̊ɪkt͡ʃəː] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • [ˈstɹ̝̊ɪkt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈstɹ̝̊ɪkt͡ʃɹ̩] (Canadian, General-American, Standard)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin strictūra, from Latin strictus.

Meanings

  1. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) A rule restricting behaviour or action.
    • To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances. 1855, Anthony Trollope, chapter 20, in The Warden:
    • 1931 Edgar Wallace: Again Sanders "That is a matter for you to discuss with the Government," said Sanders, in his iciest tone. "I am only authorized to collect twenty-eight thousand. I will note your strictures and report them to Whitehall." "I'm passing no strictures said the Major, hastily. He had been warned against Sanders...
    • Even venerable print publications seem to accept that old strictures no longer apply when they move online. 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 6, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
  2. (countable, uncountable) A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
    • I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.
    • For many young people throughout Britain in the 1970s, Northern Soul became a truly alternative lifestyle with the rites and values of the scene replacing many of the traditional strictures of society. 2013, Elaine Constantine, Gareth Sweeney, Northern Soul: An Illustrated History, Random House, →ISBN, page 12:
  3. (countable, uncountable) A sternly critical remark or review.
    • When he read the poem to his parents, upon its conclusion, both were much impressed by it, though his father made severe strictures upon its lack of polish, its terminal inconcision, and its vagueness of thought. 1889, William Sharp, chapter 2, in Life of Robert Browning:
  4. (countable, uncountable) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
    • Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation. 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XVIII, in The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
  5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Strictness.
    • a man of stricture and firm abstinence c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
    • But whatever may be said of other matters , certainly the first draughts and strictures of Natural Religion and Morality are naturally in the Mind a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
  7. (countable, uncountable) The degree of contact, in consonants.

Forms

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Coordinates

obstruction · atresia · imperforation · constriction · restriction · stenosis · impatency

Deriveds

strictured · strictureplasty

Relateds

discipline

Synonyms

criticization · animadversion · repression · slam · firmness · suppression · austerity · constraint · criticism · critique · criticism · restraint · handbagging · dressing-down · animadversion · rigorousness · criticization · stricture · constraint · restriction

Translations (24)

es angostura (rule restricting behaviour or action) · ru стриктура ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · bg свиване ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · ar تَضَيُّق ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · fi supistuma ((linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants) · fi striktuura ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · fi ahtauma ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · es estrechez (rule restricting behaviour or action) · cmn 狹窄 /狭窄 ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · fr étranglement ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · es restricción (rule restricting behaviour or action) · fi moite (sternly critical remark or review) · es constreñimiento (rule restricting behaviour or action) · fi nuhde (sternly critical remark or review) · es estenosis ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · fi striktuura ((linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants) · fi kurouma ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body) · ru суровая критика (sternly critical remark or review) · bg порицание (sternly critical remark or review) · fi rajoite (rule restricting behaviour or action) · es estrechura (rule restricting behaviour or action) · fi rajoitus (rule restricting behaviour or action) · bg ограничение (rule restricting behaviour or action) · fr rétrécissement ((medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body)