Definition of Severities

1. Noun. (plural of severity) ¹

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Definition of Severities

1. severity [n] - See also: severity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Severities

severe combined immunodeficiency disease
severe combined immunodeficient mice
severe postanoxic encephalopathy
severed
severely
severeness
severenesses
severer
severest
severeth
severies
severin
severing
severings
severities (current term)
severity
severity of illness index
severs
severy
seviche
seviches
sevirumab
sevocation
sevoflurane
sevruga
sevrugas
sevum
sew
sew together

Literary usage of Severities

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

1. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation by Horace Bushnell (1866)
"... by the sturdy severities of his doctrine. In our discussions, for example, of punishments in the civil state, and particularly of capital punishments, ..."

2. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation by Horace Bushnell (1866)
"... by the sturdy severities of his doctrine. In our discussions, for example, of punishments in the civil state, and particularly of capital punishments, ..."

3. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation by Horace Bushnell (1866)
"... by the sturdy severities of his doctrine. In our discussions, for example, of punishments in the civil state, and particularly of capital punishments, ..."

4. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1898)
"The severities exercised against the friends of Government, which form the unpleasing side of the story, are most fairly and effectively told by Mr. Lorenzo ..."

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