Definition of Strictest

1. Adjective. (superlative of strict) ¹

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Definition of Strictest

1. strict [adj] - See also: strict

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strictest

strickenness
strickenthrough
strickle
strickled
strickles
strickling
strickly
stricks
strict
strict-sense stationary
strict implication
strict implications
strict vegetarian
stricter
strictest
striction
strictions
strictly
strictly better
strictly decreasing function
strictly decreasing functions
strictly increasing function
strictly increasing functions
strictly proper
strictly speaking
strictness
strictnesses
stricture

Literary usage of Strictest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... and, in the most exposed places, new ones were skilfully constructed ; the strictest vigilance was introduced among the garrisons of the ..."

2. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"In truth, I have been careful to relate nothing whereof I had a doubtful memory, and have confined myself to the strictest truth, omitting numbers of ..."

3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... and shou'd yon ever put it in my power to return the favor, I give you my word I wou'd observe the strictest truth in my answer, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... in the strictest sense of the word, since both horn and trumpet have only one tone, hence no melody can be played on them. They both 2. ..."

5. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"all occasions within the strictest etiquette as to time, place, and circumstance, is not likely to be very sincere, and in these times will certainly be ..."

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