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Definition of strict

"strict" in the adjective sense

1. rigorous, strict

rigidly accurate allowing no deviation from a standard

"rigorous application of the law"

"a strict vegetarian"

2. hard-and-fast, strict

of rules) stringently enforced

"hard-and-fast rules"

3. nonindulgent, strict

characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

4. rigid, strict

incapable of compromise or flexibility

5. stern, strict, exacting

severe and unremitting in making demands

"an exacting instructor"

"a stern disciplinarian"

"strict standards"

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Quotations for strict

That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny. [ Fisher Ames ]

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. [ Burke ]

No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked. [ Burns ]

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong. [ Schiller ]

What a cruel jest it would be to condemn those who continually boast of their virtues, to the strict practice of what they profess! [ De Finod ]

What we call genius may, perhaps, in more strict propriety, be described as the spirit of discovery. Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought. It is always in advance of its time. It is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes. For this reason it is called a seer, and hence its songs have been prophecies. [ Simms ]

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. [ Dean Alford ]

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice. [ Swift ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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2 letter words in strict (2 words)

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4 letter words in strict (2 words)

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6 letter words in strict (1 word)

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strict + 2 blanks (21 words)

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