stricture

noun7

1. •
   [usually plural] A rule restricting behaviour or action.

   • Even venerable print publications seem to accept that old strictures no longer apply when they move online. — 2014
2. •
   A sternly critical remark or review.
3. •
   A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.

   • I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.
4. •
   Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.

   • Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation. — 1914
5. •
   The degree of contact, in consonants.
6. •
   (no longer used) Strictness.
7. •
   (no longer used) A stroke; a glance; a touch.

   • But whatever may be said of other matters , certainly the first draughts and strictures of Natural Religion and Morality are naturally in the Mind — 1677