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Causticily :: Causticily (n.) Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark..

Severity :: Severity (n.) The quality or state of being severe.

Satire :: Satire (a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.

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

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

Inclemency :: Inclemency (n.) The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity.

Horror :: Horror (n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor..

Tyrannize :: Tyrannize (v. i.) To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity not necessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince will often tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize over their servants or apprentices..

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

Rough :: Rough (n.) Marked by severity or violence; harsh; hard; as, rough measures or actions..

Oppressor :: Oppressor (n.) One who oppresses; one who imposes unjust burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity.

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

Intemperateness :: Intemperateness (n.) Severity of weather; inclemency.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.

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

Hypercriticism :: Hypercriticism (n.) Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism..

Scourge :: Scourge (n.) To punish with severity; to chastise; to afflict, as for sins or faults, and with the purpose of correction..

Austereness :: Austereness (n.) Severity; strictness; austerity.

Alleviation :: Alleviation (n.) The act of alleviating; a lightening of weight or severity; mitigation; relief.

Oppression :: Oppression (n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.

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