strictness
English
Etymology
From strict + -ness
Noun
strictness (countable and uncountable, plural strictnesses)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
- 1749, [John Cleland], Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: Printed [by Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:
- I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.
- Discipline calls for a certain strictness.
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- (countable) The result or product of being strict.