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   stricture

   /ˈstrɪktʃə/

   noun

   • 1. a restriction on a person or activity: "the strictures imposed by the British Board of Film Censors" Similar constraintrestrictionlimitationcontrolrestraintstraitjacketcurbcheckimpedimentbarbarrierobstacleOpposite freedom
   • 2. a sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction: "his strictures on their lack of civic virtue" Similar criticismcensureblamecondemnationreproofreproachadmonishmentdisparagementflakinformal:knockingstickslatingOpposite praise
   • 3. abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body: "a colonic stricture" Similar narrowingconstrictionstrangulationtightnessOpposite dilatation

   Word Origin late Middle English (in stricture (sense 3)): from Latin strictura, from stringere ‘draw tight’ (see strict). Another sense of the Latin verb, ‘touch lightly’, gave rise to stricture (sense 2) via an earlier meaning ‘incidental remark’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. strictured adjective

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