Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state, quality, or power of being restringent; astringency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Quality or state of being restringent; astringency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Quality or state of being
restringent .
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Examples
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The continual and regular influx of the nervous juices is stopped by their component fibres being contracted from the roughness and restringency of such decoctions.
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