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Definition of Strictest
1. strict [adj] - See also: strict
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strictest
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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