单词 |
austereness |
释义 |
auˈstereness [f. as prec. + -ness.] Austerity. 1. Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste.
1676Beal in Phil. Trans. XI. 585 An austerenes that must be allay'd..with a little Sugar. 1751Chambers Cycl. s.v. Austerity, Austereness of taste. 2. Harshness, sternness, severity; severe self-discipline, moral strictness.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 392/2 S. Paul condemned them that through austernesse of life..serued God. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 372 If an indifferent and unridiculous object could draw his habituall austerenesse unto a smile. 1829J. H. Newman in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 75, I saw thy face In kind austereness clad. |

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