All 7 Uses
austere
in
Jane Eyre
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- Don't trouble yourself to answer — I see you laugh rarely; but you can laugh very merrily: believe me, you are not naturally austere, any more than I am naturally vicious.†
p. 162.6 *austere = a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration; or stern in manner
- He examined my face, I thought, with austerity, as I came near: the traces of tears were doubtless very visible upon it.†
p. 415.9austerity = a government policy in which significantly less money is spent than normal; or any notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
- As she patted the dog's head, bending with native grace before his young and austere master, I saw a glow rise to that master's face.†
p. 419.9austere = a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration; or stern in manner
- An austere patriot's passion for his fatherland!†
p. 463.1
- There would be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came, and sentiments growing there fresh and sheltered which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife —at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked —forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital — this would be unendurable.†
p. 470.3austerity = a government policy in which significantly less money is spent than normal; or any notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
- As I walked by his side homeward, I read well in his iron silence all he felt towards me: the disappointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met resistance where it expected submission — the disapprobation of a cool, inflexible judgment, which has detected in another feelings and views in which it has no power to sympathise: in short, as a man, he would have wished to coerce me into obedience: it was only as a sincere Christian he bore so patiently with my perversity, and allowed so long a space for reflection and repentance.†
p. 472.1austere = a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration; or stern in manner
- He did not abstain from conversing with me: he even called me as usual each morning to join him at his desk; and I fear the corrupt man within him had a pleasure unimparted to, and unshared by, the pure Christian, in evincing with what skill he could, while acting and speaking apparently just as usual, extract from every deed and every phrase the spirit of interest and approval which had formerly communicated a certain austere charm to his language and manner.†
p. 473.8
Definitions:
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(austere) a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
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of a person: stern in manner; or practicing great self-denial - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)