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Austerely

Austerely \Aus*tere"ly\, adv. Severely; rigidly; sternly.

A doctrine austerely logical.
--Macaulay.

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austerely

adv. In an austere manner; severely; rigidly; sternly.

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austerely

adv. in an austere fashion; "the church was austerely simple"

Usage examples of "austerely".

Hope was very much like the smell of ponds on Earth, with a few dissonant olfactory notesand more of another smell, brought from ahead of them on a faint breeze, a sort resinous plangency and dry dustiness: a smell of austerely dry places.

Stephen had had plenty of time to reflect upon the trifling interval between the perception of a grateful odour and active salivation and to make a variety of experiments, checked by his austerely beautiful and accurate Breguet repeater, before the door burst open and the Commodore strode in, sure-footed on the heaving deck and scattering seawater in most directions.

I hope you haven't had to have your schools desegregated," Mother Martin said austerely.

The furnishings were rich beefleather and pale wood, austerely simple so as not to distract from the impact of the room itself.

The plain service, the vernacular Bible, the hymn-tunes mostly on an English pattern--'God save the Queen,' I was informed, a special favourite,--all, save some paper flowers upon the altar, seemed not merely but austerely Protestant.

She was neatly, even austerely dressed, in a dull-blue shirtwaist dress with a pleated bodice and small buttons down the front.

He was brought to admitting, austerely, that the entire trip had been a wild-goose chase expressly fabricated by Lymond.