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(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
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For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
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A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology
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I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.
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A sternly critical remark or review
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Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
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Strictness
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A stroke; a glance; a touch
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The degree of contact, in consonants