Both Uses of
austere
in
Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Looking at him, sitting with two of his students, young doctors in white coats, I imagined a nineteenth-century daguerreotype—the austere, august professor of medicine in a stiff high collar and a waistcoat.†
Chpt 1.2austere = a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration; or stern in manner
- In an era of fiscal austerity in Peru, they had managed to get the government to put up the money for...
Chpt 3.16 *austerity = government spending less money than normal
Definition:
a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
or:
of a person: stern in manner; or practicing great self-denial
or:
of a person: stern in manner; or practicing great self-denial