stringency

[ strin-juh n-see ]

/ ˈstrɪn dʒən si /

stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.

strictness; closeness; rigor: the stringency of school discipline.

tightness; straitness: stringency in the money market.

Origin of stringency

First recorded in 1835–45; string(ent) + -ency

Oaths of fearful length and stringency were taken to the observation of the statutes.

Oxford and Her Colleges |Goldwin Smith
Yet the stringency cannot be altogether due to this, for a bone or a grave would not often communicate infection.

The Expositor's Bible:The Book of Numbers |Robert A. Watson
The basis of the life was the Benedictine rule, but the observance of abstinence and silence went beyond it in stringency.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 |Various
This was a study which he never loved, and to the last he abjured all stringency of method.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 |Various

Even in the earliest times it was found necessary to modify the stringency of the rule in favour of the lecturers.

The Grey Friars in Oxford |Andrew G. Little