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Sternness
noun
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Noun
- 1 The state or quality of being stern. uncountable
"There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness."
- 2 uncompromising resolution wordnet
- 3 The result or product of being stern. countable
- 4 the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding wordnet
Etymology
From stern + -ness.
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