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stricture (s) (noun), strictures (pl)
1. Very serious disapproval; censure: Mrs. Bell was very rigorous and exacting when it came to students cheating in her classes and told them that there were severe strictures or criticisms and more awaiting them if they tried to deceive her.
2. An unusual tightening or contraction of a bodily passageway; the narrowed section: Steven couldn't breath very easily and went to the doctor who told him that he had a stricture in his nose termed rhinostenosis.
3. Something that limits what you can do; constraint; hinderance: Jack's monetary strictures didn't allow him to buy a new car that summer, so he decided to save more money until he had enough.
4. Etymology: from Latin strictura, from stringere "to draw tight".
Adverse criticism.
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A censure or strong denunciations.
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stricture (STRIK chuhr) (noun)
1. Restriction or a law or rule that limits or controls something: "The unexpected stricture on speed on this road really slows the traffic down."

"The local law has a stricture against the sale and possession of weapons."

2. A strong criticism: "They don't agree with her stricture, or strictures, on the state of contemporary theater."
structure (STRUK chuhr) (noun)
1. Something that has been built or constructed: "When will the structure at the entrance of the museum be completed?"

"The sentence structure was complex and very interesting."

2. The specific arrangement of parts or particles of something: "In Fred's science class, he studied the molecular structure of the chemical elements."
structure (STRUK chuhr) (verb)
To create or to form into a recognizable shape; for example, a building: "The workers undertook to structure the new barn after the old one burned down."

There is a new stricture regulating how tall a new structure can be. This new structure was subject to strong stricture in the press.