Definition of Austerity

Austerity

Sourness and harshness to the taste.

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.

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Austerity Quotations

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
Sean O'Casey

Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
James Reston

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
Francois Hollande

We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
Abraham Kuyper

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Austerity Translations

austerity in Italian is limitazione
austerity in Spanish is restriccion, austeridad

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