AUSTERE, AUSTERITY
ADJECTIVES
1727 ► TETRICOUS austere, severe, harsh, crabbed, perverse, morose → obs.
1825 ► GARGRUGOUS → GURGRUGOUS austere both in aspect and in manners, at the same time inspiring something approaching to terror, from the size of the person → Sc. obs.
1898 ► AUSTERN austere → Sc. (Bk.)
1900 ► EARTHLY austere, rough → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAMSTOUGAR austere → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAMSTOUGEROUS austere → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1905 ► RAMSTUGIOUS austere → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1531 ► RIGOROSITY austerity, rigour, extreme strictness → obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
1450 ► GRIMSIR an austere, stern, morose, or overbearing person; a grim old man → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
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