Straitness

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  • n. The state or quality of being strait.
  • n. The result or product of being strait.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state or quality of being strait.
  • n. Strictness; rigor.
  • n. Distress; difficulty; pressure from narrowness of circumstances or necessity of any kind, particularly from poverty; want; scarcity.
    • Word Usage
    "Thereupon, the man who had waxed wealthy being sore concerned, told him the whole story, and added, “I have brought thee a present, such as souls desire, and the price of thy dish of gold which I took; for it was the cause of my affluence after poverty, and of the replenishment of my dwelling-place, after desolation, and of the dispersion of my trouble and straitness.”"
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