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n. - Uncompromising resolution; Conscientious attention to rules and details.

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  • He was not in strictness a prisoner; but who could trust to the caprice of these lawless men?
  • If this much strictness is not applied in the nation’s law, then how will people combat crime.
  • "Then did I see," Abu-Keshot concluded, "that, although judgment was in strictness with this revengeful tailor, yet the world is not built upon justice alone.
  • I think this kind of strictness on the Abaya rule is rooted on the Saudi tradition itself.
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