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

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

Acrimony :: Acrimony (n.) Sharpness or severity, as of language or temper; irritating bitterness of disposition or manners..

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..

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

Scold :: Scold (v. t.) To chide with rudeness and clamor; to rate; also, to rebuke or reprove with severity..

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

Remit :: Remit (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits..

Austerity :: Austerity (n.) Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.

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

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

Black Monday :: Black Monday () Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold..

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

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

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

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

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

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification..

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

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

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