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Procrustean bed

noun
1.
A standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality.  Synonyms: procrustean rule, procrustean standard.





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"Procrustean bed" Quotes from Famous Books



... bishops themselves could scarcely be brought to agreement. Latimer and Shaxton lost their sees; but the submission of the rest did not extend to complete recantation, and the endeavour to stretch all his subjects on the Procrustean bed of Six Articles was one of Henry's least successful enterprises.[1112] It was easier to sacrifice a portion of his monastic spoils to found new bishoprics. This had been a project of Wolsey's, interrupted by the Cardinal's ...
— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard
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Words linked to "Procrustean bed" :   standard, touchstone, measure, criterion


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