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Frown :: Frown (v. i.) To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look..

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

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

Screw :: Screw (n.) An instructor who examines with great or unnecessary severity; also, a searching or strict examination of a student by an instructor..

Mitigation :: Mitigation (n.) The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty..

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

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

Relax :: Relax (v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.

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..

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

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

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

Exaction :: Exaction (n.) That which is exacted; a severe tribute; a fee, reward, or contribution, demanded or levied with severity or injustice..

Tyranny :: Tyranny (n.) Severity; rigor; inclemency.

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

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

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

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

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

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