Both Uses
stringent
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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- 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. 104.4stringent = strict
Definitions:
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(1)
(stringent) demanding strict attention to detailed rules and procedures
or:
with restricted options -- such as when there is a shortage of money or time - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)