austerity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek αὐστηρότης (austērótēs, “bitter, harsh”). Morphologically austere + -ity.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
austerity (countable and uncountable, plural austerities)
- Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- The most rigid and noted of the English ladies resident in the French capital acknowledged and countenanced her; the virtuous Lady Elderbury, the severe Lady Rockminster, the venerable Countess of Southdown—people, in a word, renowned for austerity, and of quite a dazzling moral purity:—so great and beneficent an influence had the possession of ten (some said twenty) thousand a year exercised upon Lady Clavering’s character and reputation
- Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
- 2021 October 20, Dr Joseph Brennan, “A key part of our diverse railway heritage”, in RAIL, number 942, page 56:
- The war-torn first half of the 20th century, together with the railway grouping of 1923, ushered in further austerity in design.
- (economics) A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
- 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian[1]:
- He said France clearly wanted to "close one page and open another". He reiterated his opposition to austerity alone as the only way out of Europe's crisis: "My final duty, and I know I'm being watched from beyond our borders, is to put Europe back on the path of growth and employment."
- (obsolete) Sourness and harshness to the taste.
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of "severity of manners or life"): comfort
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
severity of manners or life
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sourness and harshness to the taste
policy of deficit-cutting: reduce spending and/or raise taxes
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References[edit]
- “austerity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English austerity.
Noun[edit]
austerity f (invariable)
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