Narrowness vs Strictness - What's the difference?
narrowness | strictness | Related terms |
(uncountable) the state of being narrow
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3
, presently, then, I felt the stiff insertion between the yielding, divided lips of the wound, now open for life; where the narrowness no longer put me to intolerable pain, and afforded my lover no more difficulty than what heighten'd his pleasure, in the strict embrace of that tender, warm sheath, round the instrument it was so delicately adjusted to}}
(countable) a constriction
(uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
:Discipline calls for a certain strictness .
{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3
, I lost all restraint, and yielding to the force of the emotion, gave down, as mere woman, those effusions of pleasure, which, in the strictness of still faithful love, I could have wished to have held up.}}
(countable) The result or product of being strict.
