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Definition
demanding strict attention to detailed rules and procedures
- 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
There are no more uses of "stringent" in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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