Sternness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STERNNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being stern
• The quality or state of being stern.
• the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding
• uncompromising resolution
• the quality of being stern; (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline.
• (of an act or statement) strict and severe.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having a definite hardness or severity of nature or manner; austere; expressive of severe displeasur; harsh

Words related to STERNNESS

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Words that contain STERNNESS

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How to use STERNNESS in a sentence

• The captain spoke earnestly, and there was a flush about his fine countenance, that gave it sternness and authority.
• He looked so much older when sternness set his face, leaving no hint of that teasing gleam in his eyes, that pleasing little humorous twist of his mouth.
• The expression of her features is marked by something of sternness, which seems inherent in the model.
• The sternness in his eyes was terrible to see, for it was the sternness of a man who is suffering.
• Her face had been stern at first, but all the sternness had gone into an amazing kindness of compassion when her look had lighted upon him.
• I would not impart sternness to the beautiful countenance of English literature.
• There was not so much sternness apparent in his nature, because there was less self-restraint.
• He had just motioned his nephew to silence with a sternness which was not to be disobeyed.
• Angry as he was, his gaze lost something of its sternness as it rested upon her round full throat and the delicate lines of her shapely shoulders.
• To the excited imagination of the Indian, the eyes began to assume a deeper sternness, and he found it more and more difficult to withdraw his own.
• It was as proud as its parent, but had lost all the grave sternness of manners, and was as idle and fickle as the other places in that languid climate.
• Vice, which is forgiven in one character, will soon cease to meet with sternness of rebuke when found in others.
• Tenderness of heart is indispensable for a good man, but a certain sternness of heart is as needful for a wise one.
• The sternness had departed from his face which now put on an air of abstraction and wandering, not usually a habit with it.
• Behind the sternness, behind the scornful anger, there throbbed a great love.
• He entered more into the life of his family, and his old sternness passed away.
• He was looking at her with something of tragedy in the dark young eyes, something of sternness and determination in the clean-cut lips.
• He walked fast through the magical moonlight, with a strange feeling of sternness, and tenderness, and weariness, in his mind.
• He knew that the Indians respected his sternness with them more than they did the evident desire of Newport and the Council to please them.
• Sidgwick, with a sternness of manner and a harshness of language scarcely credible.
• I believed too he had deep and true feelings under his seeming sternness.
• Two hands freed a chin curved yet firmly set, a mouth made more for laughter than sternness, wide dark eyes.
• Phebe, I can just remember my father speaking of it with the utmost contempt and anger, with a fire in his eyes and a sternness in his voice which made me tremble with fear.
• Tarrant rebuked Verena with some sternness for not having made her feel that this attention was due to the mother of her friend.
• Hankey had her innocent enjoyments, in spite of the sternness of her creed.
• If you were, for his sake, to become gentle and amiable, and overcome your fears of his sternness, believe me, my dear Lilla, you would be rendering him and yourself much happier.
• He went about with a certain sternness in those days, but it was not the sternness of the vanquished, rather the dogged patience of the man who is quite sure of ultimate success.
• He looked straight down at her with the words, meeting her surprised eyes with most unwonted sternness.
• He was easily made well, and has lived to thank the sternness which won back the health of mind and body his parents had so foolishly helped to lose for him.

Similar words containing STERNNES without suffix s

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