Austerity Definition

ô-stĕrĭ-tē
austerities
noun
austerities
The quality of being austere.
American Heritage
The quality or condition of being austere.
Webster's New World
Severe and rigid economy.
Wartime austerity.
American Heritage
An austere act, habit, practice, or manner.
Webster's New World
An austere habit or practice.
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Other Word Forms of Austerity

Noun

Singular:
austerity
Plural:
austerities

Origin of Austerity

  • From Old French austerité (“harshness, severity”), from Latin austēritās (“harshness, sourness”). See austere.

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Austerity Sentence Examples

  • In the Constituent Assembly his oratorical gifts, legal knowledge and austerity of life gave him much influence.

  • His pride and austerity made him unpopular at court and he left the country in 1642, settling at last in Padua, where he died in 1646.

  • There was nothing of stoical austerity or of rhetorical indignation in the tone in which he treated the vices and follies of his time.

  • His life of ostentatious austerity, and the courage with which he met his death, had caused all his faults to be forgotten.

  • Two court-singers, Sallama and Ilababa, exercised great influence, tempered only by the austerity of manners that prevailed in Syria.

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