restrictivenessn.
/rᵻˈstrɪktᵻvnᵻs/, U.S. /rəˈstrɪktɪvnᵻs/, /riˈstrɪktɪvnᵻs/ The quality or fact of being restrictive.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > quality of being restricting or limiting
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > quality of being restricting or limiting
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1580 T. Newton Approoued Med. f. 82 v Salte burned is more subtill, and resolutiue, & of lesse bynding or restrictyuenesse, than salte vnburned.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. x. 50 Such restrictiveness being unsuitable with the large concernment of Scripture; as if England, half an Island in the Western corner, were more considerable than all the world besides.
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 192 We find Mr. Brightman blam'd for his overmuch restrictiveness of interpretation.
1820 Q. Rev. Jan. 538 The statute of Charles, both by its extreme restrictiveness, and its having been enacted..during the subsistence of a very different state of things, was not applicable.
1875 Times 30 June 11/7 The traditional restrictiveness of the Chinese and their opposition to foreigners and foreign trade.
1929 Amer. Econ. Rev. 19 136 An institutionalized unionism..will depart more and more from the older and cruder methods of sheer restrictiveness.
1980 A. N. Wilson Healing Art xviii. 223 Both of them found..emotional restrictiveness necessary.
2003 J. van der Leun Looking for Loopholes vi. 176 The increasing restrictiveness and the growing emphasis on exclusion have also had considerable impact on opportunities for illegal immigrants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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