The quality or state of being severe.
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Difficulty.
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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…
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The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
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The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.
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The quality or state of being plain.
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The quality or state of being stern.
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Quality or state of being strict.
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The quality or condition of being foul.
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The state of being rainy.
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The quality or state of being stern.
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Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…
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Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…
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Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
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Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
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Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.
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Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
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The state of being bad.
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Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
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The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
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That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
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The quality or state of being harsh.
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The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity.
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Rigidity; stiffness.
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The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
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