The Only Use of
stricture
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.
p. 4.3strictures = criticisms that place constraints on behavior
Definition:
a constraint -- often a rule or custom, but possibly an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passageway