restringencyn.
/rᵻˈstrɪn(d)ʒ(ə)nsi/, U.S. /rəˈstrɪndʒənsi/, /riˈstrɪndʒənsi/ Now rare.
The quality or property of being restringent.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [noun] > astringency
stypticityc1400
ponticity?a1425
stypticnessc1425
harshnessc1480
stypticalness1528
austerity1634
restringency1659
austereness1668
the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > quality or property of being restringent
restringency1659
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] > quality of
stypticityc1400
stypticnessc1425
stypticalness1528
astriction1551
strictiveness1580
astringency1601
restringency1759
1659 E. Gayton Art Longevity 75 They lose their restringency and pass away.
1664 S. Taylor in J. Evelyn Pomona in Sylva 47 The juice being pressed out is immediately pleasant in taste, without any thing of that restringency which it had.
1667 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 293 The Dyers use this Water in Reds, and in other colours wanting restringency.
1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 340 By its Restringency it strengthens the Stomach.
1789 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (rev. ed.) I. 51 Rhubarb will not be a fit purgative, though it be joined with magnesia, which will not sufficiently counteract its restringency.
1819 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. (Amer. ed.) I. at Anacardium The restringency of the juice has recommended it as a remedy in dropsical habits.
1920 E. W. Smith & A. M. Dale Ila-speaking Peoples N. Rhodesia II. xxvi. 294 [The sensation] of sourness—the restringency caused by a lemon, for example.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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