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Severity :: Severity (n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test..

Torvity :: Torvity (a.) Sourness or severity of countenance; sterness.

Frost :: Frost (v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

Unbend :: Unbend (v. i.) To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement..

Mordacity :: Mordacity (n.) The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality..

Rigorism :: Rigorism (n.) Severity, as of style, or the like..

Stern :: Stern (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree..

Aggravation :: Aggravation (n.) The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences..

Inclemency :: Inclemency (n.) Physical severity or harshness (commonly in respect to the elements or weather); roughness; storminess; rigor; severe cold, wind, rain, or snow..

Severity :: Severity (n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter..

Budgeness :: Budgeness (n.) Sternness; severity.

Tutor :: Tutor (v. t.) To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.

Lash :: Lash (v. t.) To scold; to berate; to satirize; to censure with severity; as, to lash vice..

Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold..

Recrudescency :: Recrudescency (n.) Increased severity of a disease after temporary remission.

Acerbity :: Acerbity (n.) Harshness, bitterness, or severity; as, acerbity of temper, of language, of pain..

Hypercriticise :: Hypercriticise (v. t.) To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously.

Severity :: Severity (n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter..

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