Definition of "strictures" [strictures]

• Plural form of stricture. (noun)

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• "It's interesting that you say Judaism seems like the most feminist-friendly religion, when one of the things that bothers me about right-wing evangelicals is that they more often quote strictures from the Old Testament than the words of Jesus, and the point of the New Testament is that it's new, Jesus challenged the old rules and power structures. ... that reads like I'm bashing Judaism."
• "London boasts of several periodical publications founded on the DRAMA alone; and though the other magazines occasionally contain short strictures on that subject, those have the greatest circulation which are most exclusively devoted to the stage."
• "Mr. Greville gave me several of the first volumes of his manuscript Diary to read, and I was very much amused to find certain strictures upon the ugliness of my hands and feet, and an indifferent opinion of my merit as an actress, among the earliest entries in his Journal."