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Definition of Severity

1. Noun. Used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather.

2. Noun. Something hard to endure. "The asperity of northern winters"

3. Noun. Extreme plainness.

4. Noun. Excessive sternness. "The rigors of boot camp"

Definition of Severity

1. n. The quality or state of being severe.

Definition of Severity

1. Noun. The state of being severe. ¹

2. Noun. The degree of something undesirable; badness or seriousness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Severity

1. the quality or state of being severe [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Severity

severe combined immunodeficiency disease severe combined immunodeficient mice severe postanoxic encephalopathy severed severely severeness severenesses severer severest severeth

severies severin severing severings severities severity (current term) severity of illness index severs severy seviche

seviches sevirumab sevocation sevoflurane sevruga sevrugas sevum sew sew together sew up

Literary usage of Severity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"(A135.172) Female, aged thirty-nine years, goiter for sixteen years, maximum severity four years ago 3, present severity 1. 8. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"On the other hand, ш his writings against the Donatists he upholds the rights of the State sometimes, he says, a salutary severity would be to the interest ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"On the contrary, there was a decided severity in his face, that severity which enables a man alike to exact from others, ..."

4. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"insensate and exemplary than the one here exposed with, I submit, no more severity than it deserves. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... a. gradual standardization of really professional training of teachers, comparable with the other professions in scope and severity of requirements. ..."

6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"As soon as the severity of the persecution was abated, the doors of the churches were assailed by the returning multitude of penitents, who detested their ..."

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