overstrictadj.

1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike ii. xvii. f. 118 Shepheardes bee not woont to binde themselues to any ouerstrict methode in speaking.

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 64 Where there hath been either an overgreatnesse in one [sc. Counsellor], or an overstrict combination in diuerse.

1700 R. Blackmore Paraphr. Job xxiii. 102 I would convincing Arguments prepare,..To prove my angry Judge is over-strict.

1771 R. Cumberland West Indian v. iii. 90 You will not be over strict, Madam, in weighing Mr. Belcour's conduct to the minutest scruple.

1845 H. W. Herbert Warwick Woodlands vii. 75 There was not quite so much solemnity in our demeanor as might have best accorded with the notions of over strict professors.

1862 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Personal Relig. 147 The fear of being accounted over-strict, methodistical, puritanical or what not.

1951 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 114 142 The chance of a delinquent coming from a home where parents are over-strict or over-indulgent is three to four times as great as..from a home with a satisfactory attitude.

1986 R. Delmar in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley What is Feminism? 23 These problems derived from an overstrict identification of feminism with a women's movement.