strictures: significato e definizioni

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Cos'è strictures?

  • 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).