Severity
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.
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Severity Quotations
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods.
Mercy Otis Warren
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes
The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Charles de Montesquieu
Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
Alphonse Karr
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
Quintilian
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Terence
Severity Translations
severity in French is rigueur
severity in German is Schwierigkeit, Schwierigkeitsgrad
severity in Latin is severitas
severity in Spanish is severidad
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