stricture

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Late Latin strictūra, from Latin strictus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɪkt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• enPR: strĭk'chər
• Rhymes: -ɪktʃə(r)

Noun

stricture (countable and uncountable, plural strictures)

1. (usually in the plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action

   For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.

2. a general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology

   I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.

3. a sternly critical remark or review
4. (medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
5. (obsolete) strictness
   • Shakespeare

     a man of stricture and firm abstinence

6. (obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir M. Hale to this entry?)

7. (linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants

Translations

a rule restricting behaviour or action

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a sternly critical remark or review

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(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body

• French: étranglement (fr) m, rétrécissement (fr) m
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• Spanish: estenosis (es) f

(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) strictūre

1. vocative masculine singular of strictūrus