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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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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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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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It was a more austere version of Riverdale, a far cry from my Bronx neighborhood. (source)austere = notable for absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
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The immensely popular Ahmad Zahir had revolutionized Afghan music and outraged the purists by adding electric guitars, drums, and horns to the traditional tabla and harmonium; on stage or at parties, he shirked the austere and nearly morose stance of older singers and actually smiled when he sang--sometimes even at women. (source)austere = very serious or stern
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a beautiful but austere-looking witch wearing a most bizarre-looking headdress. (source)austere = stern
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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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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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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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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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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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Monterrey was a city devoid of material comforts, so it was good that he had chosen a vocation that rewarded austerity. (source)austerity = self-denial (of luxury and comfort)
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Kali, night of destruction at Worldsend, who walketh the world by night, protectress, deceiver, serene one, loved and lovely, Brahmani, Mother of the Vedas, dweller in the silent and most secret places, well-omened, and gentle, all-knowing, swift as thought, wearer of skulls, possessed of power, the twilight, invincible leader, pitiful one, opener of the way before those lost, granter of favors, teacher, valor in the form of woman, chameleon-hearted, practitioner of austerities, magician, pariah, deathless and eternal ...Ã,ryatarabhattarikanamashtottarasatakastotra (36-40) From Hellwell to Heaven he went, there to commune with the gods.† (source)austerities = notable absences of basic comforts
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