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

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

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

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

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

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

Toleration :: Toleration (n.) Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters..

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

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

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..

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

Rigidity :: Rigidity (n.) Severity; rigor.

Lenity :: Lenity (n.) The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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