Stringent
['strɪn(d)ʒ(ə)nt] or ['strɪndʒənt]
Definition
(a.) Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Binding, contracting.[2]. Strict, rigid, severe, rigorous.
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Definition
adj. binding strongly: urgent.—n. Strin′gency state or quality of being stringent: severe pressure.—advs. Stringen′do (mus.) hastening the time; Strin′gently in a stringent manner.—n. Strin′gentness.
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Examples
- I would not believe anything worse of him except under stringent proof. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My resting-time was past; my difficulties--my stringent difficulties--recommenced. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Clearly they could want nothing but a stringent policeman. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- How does the recommendation of a stringent and uniform law fit in with these three statements? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And if the only way he can free himself is by adultery, does not your stringent divorce law put a premium upon vice? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Notwithstanding the stringent laws on the subject, much of the oleomargarine made is sold for, and by the average purchaser is not distinguishable from, pure butter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Why are not the laws more stringent, that I might compel her to hear reason? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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