Punishing vs Strict - What's the difference?
punishing | strict |
punishment
* 2011 , Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (page 303)
Strained; drawn close; tight.
Tense; not relaxed.
Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice.
Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
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, chapter=2 Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
(botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Severe in discipline.
As adjectives the difference between punishing and strict
is that punishing is that inflicts punishment while strict is strained; drawn close; tight.As a verb punishing
is .As a noun punishing
is punishment.punishing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- We may not be convinced that God is as involved in historical punishings as the prophet claims, and we may have a strong negative reaction to the claims made for how God acts
strict
English
Adjective
(er)- strict embrace
- strict ligature
- strict fiber
- to keep strict watch
- to pay strict attention
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- very strict in observing the Sabbath
- to understand words in a strict sense