stricture
A rule restricting behavior 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.
A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
A sternly critical remark or review.
Harry doubted that Snape had even heard her strictures on Mulciber and Avery.
(medicine) 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.
(obsolete) Strictness.
a man of stricture and firm abstinence
(obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
(linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants.
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