STRICTURES
Definition
STRICTURES is the plural of STRICTURE.
noun STRICTURE: abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway.
Examples
- “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.”
- “I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.”