stricture

noun

/ˈstrɪktʃə(r)/

/ˈstrɪktʃər/

(formal)

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[usually plural] stricture (on somebody/something) a severe criticism, especially of somebody’s behaviour
- She merely ignored any strictures on the way she dressed.
stricture (against/on something) a rule or situation that limits your behaviour synonym restriction
- strictures against civil servants expressing political opinions

Word Originlate Middle English (in the medical sense; abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body): from Latin strictura, from stringere ‘draw tight’. Another sense of the Latin verb, ‘touch lightly’, gave rise to sense (1) via an earlier meaning ‘incidental remark’.

单词	stricture
释义	stricture noun /ˈstrɪktʃə(r)/ /ˈstrɪktʃər/ (formal) jump to other results [usually plural] stricture (on somebody/something) a severe criticism, especially of somebody’s behaviour She merely ignored any strictures on the way she dressed. stricture (against/on something) a rule or situation that limits your behaviour synonym restriction strictures against civil servants expressing political opinions Word Originlate Middle English (in the medical sense; abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body): from Latin strictura, from stringere ‘draw tight’. Another sense of the Latin verb, ‘touch lightly’, gave rise to sense (1) via an earlier meaning ‘incidental remark’.
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