strictures : अर्थ और परिभाषाएं

A restraint, limit, or restriction: strictures placed on free assembly; strictures against food in the library; the strictures of traditional gender roles.

An abnormal narrowing of a bodily duct or passage.

An adverse remark or criticism:"my writing .. which he praises sufficiently to give his strictures a good deal of force"(Virginia Woolf).