Austerity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AUSTERITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being austere
• sternness or severity of manner or attitude
• plainness and simplicity in appearance
• a feature of an austere way of life
• difficult economic conditions created by government measures to reduce public expenditure
• Sourness and harshness to the taste.
• Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
• Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.
• the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
• state of being austere
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being austere

Words related to AUSTERITY

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How to use AUSTERITY in a sentence

• A girl with dark hair and eyes was standing on the threshold, staring at us curiously, holding a candle that softened the austerity of her plain black dress.
• The worship of the genesiac principle is as often characterized by an excessive austerity as by indulgence in sexual acts.
• The stock and cravat of an earlier day gave a certain austerity to the shrewd face, lighted by a pair of keen gray eyes, which now turned to greet the new-comer.
• Austerity and gloom have taken possession of the painter.
• Wilder again shrunk behind his cover, maintaining a proud position and a countenance that was grave to austerity.
• Inside, the large amount of Purbeck marble employed gives a touch of colour which, to a certain extent, relieves the austerity.
• Nor do the objects of daily use found in the tombs suggest any austerity in the Egyptian character.
• Epochs of licence have almost invariably followed epochs of austerity.
• The terrible silence, the dread austerity of mountains so rock-ribbed and desolate, oppressed her with a sense of awe.
• She recognised that in him was an austerity against which even she could beat in vain.
• Austerity was the note through it all, austerity even in the pictures upon the walls.
• To which the Buddha replies that his language is a concession to those who cannot stomach the doctrine of the negation of reality in all its austerity.
• For instance, it was certainly odd that the modern world charged Christianity at once with bodily austerity and with artistic pomp.
• There was something in the nakedness of the desert, something in its piercing austerity that forced her to truthfulness with herself.
• By the middle of the nineteenth century this old austerity and actuality in the Puritan vision had fallen away into two principal lower forms.
• Thus the Irish detachment and the Puritan austerity did much good to the country and to the causes for which they were embattled.
• This is a handsome, dignified face, with austerity in its pride.
• He hated it, he told himself in his tragic and newborn austerity of spirit, as any right-minded and clean-living man should hate paper roses or painted faces.
• It was merely the old Puritan austerity cropping out once a week.
• There was an almost terrible austerity in it, combined, she believed, with great power and originality.
• The captive king was confined in an old castle, under a keeper of such formal austerity of manners as added to the disgust of the high-spirited French monarch.
• For this best agrees with what we gather to have been the custom of Christ himself, who, indeed, never speaks of austerity but to condemn it.
• The charm of the place was clear and sane, its beauty simple almost to austerity.
• In early Canada there was no austerity of garb such as we find in Puritan New England.
• Conscience must not be allowed to practise such austerity.
• There was the same austerity, the same intolerance, the same narrowness of interests, in Scotland that there was in New England.
• This austerity and repression, though they involve occasional hypocrisy, lead also to substantial moral reconstruction.
• He even goes so far as to say that the inflexible austerity of a man is the basis of a republic.
• Had he not possessed a certain austerity of manners, he could never have controlled the wayward passions of those who followed him to battle.

Similar words containing AUSTER without suffix ity

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