Severity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SEVERITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being severe
• the fact or condition of being severe
• The quality or state of being severe.
• Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.
• 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.
• Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.
• Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.
• used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
• something hard to endure
• extreme plainness
• excessive sternness
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the quality or state of being severe

Words related to SEVERITY

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How to use SEVERITY in a sentence

• He prudently sought at first to divert attention from the real issue by increasing the severity of judgments in the ecclesiastical courts.
• He was told that the breaker had been struck by lightning and burned to the ground, and that his own illness was due to the severity of the electric shock.
• What could her motive be? The drama, Greek in its severity, culminated with a hideous, a sickening velocity.
• But not all the severity of the censorship, with its strangle-grip upon the truth-tellers, could hide certain frightful facts.
• Then, after the work of education, of creation, of pity, comes the work of severity, of punishment, of destruction.
• New laws and regulations restricting the press were proclaimed and enforced with increasing severity.
• During one of the clear nights common to these high northern latitudes, young Nelson, notwithstanding the extreme severity of the cold, was missing from the ship.
• A storm of unusual severity burst over the eastern coast of Scotland.
• The severity of manners and customs in that country returned to her mind, and love itself could not entirely triumph over the bitterness of her recollections.
• That severity carries with it an idea of force, very suitable to a religion preached among the perils of war.
• All military operations in Europe seem to have been stopped, by the excessive severity of the weather.
• It is not in that respect, as you may understand, that I treat her with so much severity.
• To the good he is mild and lovely, but to the impious he is clad in terror and acts with severity.
• The serious character of the burn depends not so much upon the severity as upon the extent of the surface involved.
• On the other hand, Lord Durham thought that the local government had erred on the opposite side of severity.
• I find myself incapable of speaking of him or his testimony with severity.
• It appeared, that they had been deserving of punishment, but that it had been administered with too much severity, in the opinion even of the surgeon who was present.
• If we did so, the only course for the cabbage would be to point out with severity, but with some show of truth, that we were not a beautiful green all over.
• Calhoun, would it not be advisable to begin to cast about for another? The tariff bill of 1828 was passed before the Presidential canvass had set in with its last severity.
• Then all of them conquered the desire to laugh and returned to the inquest with added severity.
• There is the Judge of awful severity who admits no excuse, who pursues with relentless perseverance to the very end and whose resources for punishment are inexhaustible.

Similar words containing SEVER without suffix ity

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