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Definition of Severities
1. severity [n] - See also: severity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Severities
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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