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1. Severe in maintaining discipline, or rigorous in ensuring that rules are obeyed.
2. Something that is enforced rigorously or which needs to be closely obeyed.
3. Exact, precise, or narrowly interpreted.
4. Closely observing rules, principles, or practices.
5. Characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: "The church required a strict observance of rituals.
6. Etymology: "narrow, drawn in, small", from Latin strictus, "drawn together, tight, rigid"; which came from Latin stringere, "to draw" or "to bind tight".
2. Something that is enforced rigorously or which needs to be closely obeyed.
3. Exact, precise, or narrowly interpreted.
4. Closely observing rules, principles, or practices.
5. Characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: "The church required a strict observance of rituals.
6. Etymology: "narrow, drawn in, small", from Latin strictus, "drawn together, tight, rigid"; which came from Latin stringere, "to draw" or "to bind tight".
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string-, strict-, strain-, -stringence, -stringency, -stringe, -stringent
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(Latin: draw tight, to bind, to compress)