Crossword clues for stringency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stringency \Strin"gen*cy\ (str[i^]n"jen*s[y^]), n. The quality or state of being stringent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1829, from stringent + -cy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A rigorous imposition of standards 2 A tightness or constriction 3 A scarcity of money or credit
WordNet
n. a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit [syn: tightness]
conscientious attention to rules and details [syn: strictness]
Usage examples of "stringency".
That they are growing anxious there is evident from the stringency of the quarantine regulations they are passing.
Cato the Censor had been famous for the stringency of his inspections.
I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives which should not in its stringency be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one.
I would give them any legislation for the reclaiming of their fugitives, which should not, in its stringency, be more likely to carry a free man into slavery than Our ordinary criminal laws are to hang an innocent one.
He knew so little of quarantine regulations, however, that his dress was actually in contact with mine whilst he insisted upon the stringency of the orders which he had received.
Only as he gets to near the end of his pint does he remember that financial stringency makes students habitually drink slowly.
At the same time the stringency in the money market and the low prices following the panic of 1873 added weight to the arguments of those who favored an increase in the quantity of currency in circulation and who saw in the free and unlimited coinage of silver one means of accomplishing this end.
Even the most devout priest can get enough of talk about religion, especially when it is untouched by theological stringency, or mystical insight.
But also, the need for greater stringency in the service of the Goddess.
For twenty years the stringency of the persecution had increased until there was no weapon which bigotry could employ, short of absolute expulsion, which had not been turned against him.
But I did think they would have been a more socially acceptable people if they had relaxed that stringency when it was not needful.
The rules of the FSRIB grew, in fact, in stringency as the years passed.
Unfortunately, the very stringency that made him an irreproachably honest agent rendered him reluctant to make me the loan I requested.
But then there is this compensation for the solitude and stringency of the way that the wall that so encloses it is Salvation.
Thee, Socrates, Thou dear and very strong one, I forgive Thy year-worn cloak, thine iron stringencies That were but dandy upside-down, thy words Of truth that, mildlier spoke, had mainlier wrought.