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stricture

noun as in censure

noun as in constriction

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They preached personal freedom and choice; the Democrats, by contrast, strived to keep faith with their large base of Catholics who hewed to the church’s strictures on abortion.

But rather than commune with Marika, his deified mother, Miquella wants to escape the strictures and expectations of her Golden Order.

Jackson, who is in her early 50s, is aware of the reality of the modern LGBTQ+ community and the moral strictures of her faith.

But money did not insulate him from the strictures of Jim Crow and its long racist shadow.

It would require groups that receive significant foreign funding to register as organizations “carrying the interests of a foreign power,” among other strictures.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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