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Definition of Straitness
1. n. The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
Definition of Straitness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being strait. ¹
2. Noun. The result or product of being strait. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Straitness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Straitness
Literary usage of Straitness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"Narrowness, straitness. 2 (Met.) Austerity, abstraction from the world 3. (Met.
... Straitness, narrowness. 2. (Met.) Intimate union. Я. (Met. ..."
2. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Hebrews by Albert Barnes (1857)
"and ever : a sceptre of right- 1 tightness, or straitness. ings everywhere—and
that prince was the Messiah. The Psalm, therefore, I regard as relating ..."
3. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle to the Hebrews by Albert Barnes (1861)
"and ever: a sceptre of right- 1 Tightness, or straitness. ings everywhere — and
that prince Was the Messiah. The Psalm, therefore, I regard as relating ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... a straitness of the intestines, constipated from inflammation : also a
preternatural straitness of the uterus. ARCTIC, in astronomy, an epithet given to ..."
5. The Book of Psalms by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1884)
"TT NTO Jehovah in my straitness 3 What shall one give unto thee, and what more
give unto thee, O deceitful tongue ? 4 Arrows of a mighty man, sharpened ones ..."
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