stricture
noun/ˈstrɪktʃə(r)/
/ˈstrɪktʃər/
(formal)- [usually plural] stricture (on somebody/something) a severe criticism, especially of somebody’s behaviour
- She merely ignored any strictures on the way she dressed.
- stricture (against/on something) a rule or situation that limits your behaviour synonym restriction
- strictures against civil servants expressing political opinions
Word Originlate Middle English (in the medical sense; abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body): from Latin strictura, from stringere ‘draw tight’. Another sense of the Latin verb, ‘touch lightly’, gave rise to sense (1) via an earlier meaning ‘incidental remark’.
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