Crossword-Solution: STRINGENCY 10 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Some austerity and wintry negativity, some roughness, danger, stringency, and effort, some “no! no!” must be mixed in, to produce the sense of an existence with character and texture and power.

Securing its import duties in the precious metal and thus assisting to create an artificial stringency in the gold market, the Government had made it a practice to relieve the situation by selling a million of gold each month.

Daily there passed before me taut and passionate problems, the stringency of which I had to pretend to relieve by silly imprisonments or silly damages, while I knew all the time, by the light of my living common sense, that they would have been far better relieved by a kiss or a thrashing, or a few words of explanation, or a duel, or a tour in the West Highlands.

But then there is this compensation for the solitude and stringency of the way that the wall that so encloses it is Salvation.

She is far from comfortable where she is." After a time I gathered that she suspected financial stringency as the cause, and I tried to set her mind at rest.