stricture
noun
[ ˈstrɪktʃə ]
• a restriction on a person or activity.
• "the strictures imposed by the British Board of Film Censors"
Similar:
constraint,
restriction,
limitation,
control,
restraint,
straitjacket,
curb,
check,
impediment,
bar,
barrier,
obstacle,
• a sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction.
• "his strictures on their lack of civic virtue"
Similar:
criticism,
censure,
blame,
condemnation,
reproof,
reproach,
admonishment,
disparagement,
flak,
knocking,
stick,
slating,
• abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
• "a colonic stricture"
Origin:
late Middle English (in stricture (sense 3)): from Latin strictura, from stringere ‘draw tight’ (see strict). Another sense of the Latin verb, ‘touch lightly’, gave rise to stricture (sense 2) via an earlier meaning ‘incidental remark’.
