Sample Sentences foraustere (editor-reviewed)
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He took a vow of silence and leads an austere life at the monastery.austere = lacking luxury (and stern)
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The monk's room was austere, with only a bed, a small table, and a wooden chair.austere = plain and without luxury
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While most kids are partying at college, she practiced austerity during her college years.austerity = stern self-denial with an absence of luxury
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A smile broke through her normal austere expression.austere = stern (strict and unsmiling)
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His sermon was a forthright denunciation of sin, an austere declaration of the motto on the wall behind him: [God Is Love] (source)austere = stern and lacking comfort
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The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical…. (source)austere = with a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
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There was no cheerful Hagrid waiting for them at King's Cross Station. Instead, two grim-faced, bearded Aurors in dark Muggle suits ... marched them into the station without speaking. "Quick, quick, through the barrier," said Mrs. Weasley, who seemed a little flustered by this austere efficiency. (source)austere = stern (lacking comfort)
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He knew that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour lived in primitive austerity and that he earned much more with his art than he needed, (source)austerity = a manner that lacks luxury, comfort, or anything beyond minimum requirements
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She was neatly, even austerely dressed, in a dull-blue shirtwaist dress with a pleated bodice and small buttons down the front; her hair was pulled back into a severe chignon. (source)austerely = plainly or sternly
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Of old time there lived there an abbot and his monks. ...they gave themselves to study of pious books, and spoke not the one to the other, or indeed to any, and ate decayed herbs and ... slept hard, and prayed much, and ... came they to be known of all the world by reason of these holy austerities, and visited by rich and poor, and reverenced. (source)austerities = absences of basic comforts
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We had it much austerer at our house.† (source)
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It is true that the Limeans were given to interpolating trivial songs into the most exquisite comedies and some lachrymose effects into the austerest music; but at least they never submitted to the boredom of a misplaced veneration.† (source)
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th' austereness of my life (source)austereness = a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decorationstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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...would end at last in an untouched grove of pine, austere and beautiful. (source)austere = plain (unadorned -- without decoration)
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It might be partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, (source)austerity = a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
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"I told you he was a charmer," said Colin austerely.† (source)
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