Definition of Severity

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Severity

The quality or state of being severe.

Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.

The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.

Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.

Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.

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Severity Quotations

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
Joseph Addison

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Charles de Montesquieu

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Pierre Corneille

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Terence

This Department of Treasury, run by this administration, using the same tried and true accounting methods that every business in America uses, cast new light on the fiscal severity that our Nation is facing, what some would call a mess.
Jim Costa

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.
Steven Chu

Severity Translations

severity in French is rigueur
severity in German is Schwierigkeit, Schwierigkeitsgrad
severity in Latin is severitas
severity in Spanish is severidad

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