Top 10 Severity Quotes

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

George Eliot

You decide. You be the judge. It says You are welcome regardless of severity. Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.

David Foster Wallace

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The meaning of severity

(n.) The quality or state of being severe.

(n.) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.

(n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.

(n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.

(n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.