Meaning of AUSTERITY
| Pronunciation: | | o'steritee
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| | Definition: | | [n] the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) |
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| | Synonyms: | | asceticism, nonindulgence |
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| | See Also: | | monasticism, self-denial, self-discipline | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Aus*ter"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Austerities}. [F.
aust['e]rit['e], L. austerias, fr. austerus. See {Austere}.]
1. Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] --Horsley.
2. Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness;
harsh discipline.
The austerity of John the Baptist. --Milton.
3. Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.
Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress,
and partly to the lack of demonstration in her
manners. --Hawthorne.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstinence, Albigensianism, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, astringency, austerity program, authoritarianism, baldness, bareness, candor, canniness, care, carefulness, Catharism, chariness, common speech, demandingness, directness, discipline, economic planning, economicalness, economy, economy of means, eremitism, exactingness, exiguity, exiguousness, false economy, fasting, flagellation, forehandedness, Franciscanism, frankness, frugality, frugalness, good management, grimness, hardness, harshness, homespun, household words, husbandry, inclemency, inornateness, jejuneness, jejunity, leanness, Lenten fare, maceration, management, matter-of-factness, meagerness, meanness, mendicantism, meticulousness, miserliness, monachism, monasticism, mortification, narrowness, naturalness, niggardliness, openness, paltriness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, prosaicness, prosiness, providence, prudence, prudential administration, puniness, puritanism, regimentation, restrainedness, rigid discipline, rigor, roughness, ruggedness, rustic style, Sabbatarianism, scantiness, scantness, scrawniness, scrimpiness, self-denial, self-mortification, severity, simpleness, simplicity, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slim pickings, slimness, smallness, soberness, spareness, sparingness, Spartan simplicity, Spartanism, starkness, sternness, stinginess, straightforwardness, strictness, stringency, thinness, thrift, thriftiness, tight purse strings, toughness, Trappism, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, unelaborateness, unfanciness, unfussiness, ungentleness, unimaginativeness, unpoeticalness, unwastefulness, vernacular, voluntary poverty, Waldensianism, Yoga |
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