Definition of "straitest" [straitest]

• Superlative form of strait. (adjective)

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• "Marid in straitest bonds and returned after a while, saying,"
• "He governed his life by the St.ic discipline, the most hardy, in its practical requirements, of ancient systems, so rigorous in its ethic that Josephus is proud to claim an affinity with it for the "straitest" of the Jewish sects, and so pure in its spirit that St. Jerome ranks its best-known writer as a"
• "But if fear was new-born in the hearts of the Unwise Men, the black man was born in a house of fear; to him poverty of the ugliest and straitest type of father, mother, and blood-brother."