Severer
[si'viəə]
Examples
- Hitherto I have known few pleasures save of the severer kind: my satisfactions have been those of the solitary student. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- One morning, after a severer strain than usual, he awoke with a strange sensation in his eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is true, that such slight compositions might not suit the severer genius of our friend Mr Oldbuck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But we can also imagine the existence of an age in which a severer conception of truth has either banished or transformed them. Plato. The Republic.
- To stare Becky out of countenance required a severer glance than even the frigid old Bareacres could shoot out of her dismal eyes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Rena