strict fast
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And it all came from a player who has spent recent weeks managing a strict fast from dawn until sunset to observe Ramadan as a Muslim.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023
The three are Muslims who observe Ramadan and began a strict fast from dawn until sunset daily starting March 22 and continuing through April 20.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023
Thus purified and clothed, the candidate observed for four and twenty hours a strict fast.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 by Guizot, M. (François)
From the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth day there was not only a cessation of business, but a strict fast was kept.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) by Duncker, Max
The pleasure that some fathers feed upon Is my strict fast, I mean my children's looks; And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt.
From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William
