(n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "straitness" 28 May 2011. Web. 21 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/straitness/definitions/2066923> |