Fierceness, roughness (of the weather or the sea); cruelty, severity.

The quality or condition of being grim; fierceness; sternness; formidable aspect.

Sternness, severity.

Severity, harshness in punishment; censure, rebuke, etc.; asperity in behaviour.

Violence, harm; harshness, harsh treatment; severity, strictness, rigour.

Severity of disposition or mood; rigour in punishment or condemnation; an instance of this; hardness, harshness, obduracy, †fierceness.

Sternness, severity. Obsolete.

Fierceness, violence; harshness, sternness.

Hardness; roughness, violence, severity; hardiness of endurance, resistance, etc.; firmness.

With reference to a person or animal, their actions or attributes: fierceness, harshness, savagery; cruelty; malignity; an instance of this. In early…

Sternness of manner, appearance, or disposition; severity in judgement; (esp. of a law or judgement) harshness, severity.

The quality of being harsh; unpleasant roughness, discordance, severity, rigour, etc.: see the adjective.

Harshness, abrasiveness, or severity of manner or behaviour.

Strictness or sternness in dealing with others; stern or rigorous disposition or behaviour; rigour in treatment, discipline, punishment, or the like.

Hardness. literal and figurative.

Harshness, roughness, unkindness.

Severity.

Roughness or severity of character, manner, etc. Now rare.

Fierceness, sternness, implacability. archaic.

Austere quality or character; harshness, sternness, severity; (also) severe self-denial, asceticism.

figurative. Acerbity, severity. Obsolete.

figurative. Harshness, sternness, austerity.

Draconic character. (See Draconic, adj. 1.)

Of a person, or a person's character, conduct, etc.: sternness, harshness. Cf. stark, adj. 2d. Obsolete.