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con·strin·gent
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Constringentadjective
Having the quality of binding or compressing.
Etymology: constringens, Latin.
Try a deep well, or a conservatory of snow, where the cold may be more constringent. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 380.
It binds
Our strengthen’d bodies in a cold embrace
Constringent. James Thomson, Winter, l. 700.
Webster Dictionary
Constringentadjective
having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing
Etymology: [L. constringens, p. pr.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of constringent in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of constringent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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