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Quality or state of being strict.

Severity; strictness; austerity. Shak.

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

According to strictness (of etiquette, rule, or the like); obligatory; strictly required.

One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.

The type of character of the Hebrews. The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience. M. Arnold.

Impostrous; deceitful. Strictness fales and impostrous. Beau. & Fl.

The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.

The state or quality of being lax; want of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.

Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.

ers were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties.

g with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties. It is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance. Shak.

Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct. [R.] Those parts of pleading which in ancient times might perhaps be material, but at this time are become only mere styles and forms, are still continued with much religion. Sir M. Hale.

Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to Ant: lenity.

Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.

Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties. "Strict age, and sour severity." Milton.

Strictness. [Obs.] A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak.