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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Straitness

· Strait·ness · IPA
01 n. The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circum…
  1. 1.
    The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.