strictness

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Justice and Temperance require Professors as grave and solemnn, and demand as much Strictness and Observance as any other Virtues.

From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard

On the prevailing inadequate Conceptions concerning the Nature and the Strictness of Practical Christianity.

From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William

These are the Men, that in Strictness of Profession, are dead to the World.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

Even in Morality one may more properly say, There should be Fundamentals allowed, than that there are any which in Strictness can be maintained.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of

As to Strictness of Religion and the Love of Liberty, they had all along been the darling Pretences of the party he engaged in.

From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard