Sample Sentences for
austere
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    a beautiful but austere-looking witch wearing a most bizarre-looking headdress.  (source)
    austere = stern
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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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    ...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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    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 decoration
    standard 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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    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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    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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    "I told you he was a charmer," said Colin austerely.†  (source)
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