stricture on/against• He has some severe but convincingstrictures on the impoverished and distortedcontribution of feminist studies to his subject.• This is partly because of Marx's strictures on Utopian socialism.• After that scene there is little else that needs to be said about the strictures onVictorian women.• Moreover, the strictures againstmaximuminvestment rates were vindicated, as we have seen above.
Originstricture
(1300-1400)Late Latinstrictura“tightening, narrowing”, from Latinstrictus; → STRICT