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Definition of Austere
Austere

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.

Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.

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Austere Quotations

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
E. T. Bell

And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.
George Martin

I'm not an austere person.
Paul Farmer

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
Havelock Ellis

Austere Translations

austere in German is entsagend, ernst
austere in Italian is solido, severo
austere in Spanish is austero

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