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What does strictly speaking mean?

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Adverb
  1. Being totally accurate (used as a phrase to specify).
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In this spirit of forthrightness, I feel I must tell you that, strictly speaking, I'm not supposed to leave the castle without my entourage.
The government, elected after all on a promise not to raise taxes, has, strictly speaking, kept its word.
But the property rights system described here is not, strictly speaking, a commons.
More strictly speaking, the word nebula should be reserved for gas and dust clouds and not for groups of stars.
While not, strictly speaking, a plant, several specimens of squid stinkhorn fungus Pseudocolus schellenbergiae attracted interest.
Fronds are, strictly speaking, elaborate compound leaves, attached to the stem by a petiole.

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