Both Uses of
stringent
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- but professional honour and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations;
p. 47..2 *stringent = demanding
- I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.†
p. 104..4
Definition:
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(stringent) demanding strict attention to detailed rules and procedures