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Definition of Exacting

Exacting
Exacting Ex*act"ing, a. Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. ``A temper so exacting.' --T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
Exacting
Exact Ex*act", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exacting.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL. exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See Exact, a.] To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one. He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. --Luke. iii. 13. Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last --Dryden. My designs Exact me in another place. --Massinger.

Meaning of Exacting from wikipedia

- term "exacting scrutiny" when referring to the intermediate level of Equal Protection analysis. For example the court applied similar exacting intermediate...
- lived by those faithful who are called to follow Jesus Christ in a more exacting way. It includes those in institutes of consecrated life (religious and...
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- Prince Igor Exacting Tribute from the Drevlyans, by Klavdiy Lebedev (1852–1916)....
- and regulations. As is common in major sports, regulations became more exacting over time, with improvements affecting the qualities of the tennis racket...
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- on the cable network FX. This episode focuses on Fiona (Jessica Lange) exacting revenge on Myrtle Snow (Frances Conroy) after Cordelia (Sarah Paulson)...
- and the Karnataka, devastating Mughal stations, destroying their armies, exacting tribute, plundering Mughal treasures, animals and stocks of camp equipage...
- lizards, and butterflies. The movie suggests nature may be justified in exacting revenge on this family because of its patriarch's abuse of the local ecology...