All 5 Uses of
austere
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- He knew that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour lived in primitive austerity and that he earned much more with his art than he needed,
Chpt 1 *austerity = a manner that lacks luxury, comfort, or anything beyond minimum requirements
- For despite her austere conduct and penitential habit, Aunt Escolastica had an instinct for life and a vocation for complicity, which were her greatest virtues, and the mere idea that a man was interested in her niece awakened an irresistible emotion in her.†
Chpt 2
- And yet, even when he had the resources to live like the Roman emperor he resembled, Uncle Leo XII lived in the old city because it was convenient to his business, in such an austere manner and in such a plain house that he could never shake off an unmerited reputation for miserliness.†
Chpt 4
- As indifferent and irregular as he had been until then regarding food, that was how habitual and austere he became until the end of his days: a large cup of black coffee for breakfast, a slice of poached fish with white rice for lunch, a cup of cafe con leche and a piece of cheese before going to bed.†
Chpt 4
- Only once before in his austere professional life had something similar happened to him, and that had been the day of his greatest shame, because the indignant patient had moved his hand away, sat up in bed, and said to him: "What you want may happen, but it will not be like this."†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(austere) a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
or:
of a person: stern in manner; or practicing great self-denial