| 单词 | sternness |
| 释义 | sternness (once / 3261 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY sternness: sternnesses+/stern: sterner, sternest, sternly, sternness, sterns USAGE EXAMPLESAs soon as we were done, his face resumed its sternness. Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy S...(2007) As Mr. Prud’homme looked at him and listened to the scatterbrained eloquence of his explanation, he could be seen rapidly losing his grip on sternness. John Knowles, A Separate Peace(1959) At first our voices wavered, our raised arms noodled, and our overall mien lacked sternness. Slate(Apr 21, 2016) 1 n uncompromising resolution 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper strictness Puritanism strictness and austerity in conduct and religion hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffnessexcessive sternness restrictiveness, unpermissiveness a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits n the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable Hyper asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity something hard to endure |
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