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severity

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se·ver·i·ty  (s-vr-t)
n. pl. se·ver·i·ties
1. The state or quality of being severe.
2. The act or an instance of severe behavior, especially punishment.
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Noun1.severity - used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
intensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intense
raininess, foulness - (of weather) the badness of the weather; "they were wearied with the foulness of the weather"
distressfulness, seriousness - the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
2.severity - something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
difficultness, difficulty - the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
sternness - the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable"
3.severity - extreme plainness
plainness - the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
4.severity - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
sternness, strictness - uncompromising resolution

severity
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Spanish severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] nseveridad f; gravedad f; intensidad f
French severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] nsévérité f; gravité f; rigueur f
German severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] severe n (gravity) (of punishment) → Härte f: (of manner, voice, winter) → Strenge f: (of weather) → Rauheit f;
(austerity) → Strenge f

Italian severity [sɪˈvɛrɪtɪ] nseverità; gravità; [of weather] → rigore m

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But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
And if you retort that David is naturally a depraved little boy, and so demands harsher measure, I have still my answer, to wit, what is the manner of severity meted out to him at home?
"It will be absolutely necessary," said she, "as you, my dear sister, must be sensible, to treat my daughter with some severity while she is here; a most painful necessity, but I will ENDEAVOUR to submit to it.
 
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