STERN, STERNNESS
ADJECTIVES
1175 ► BREME stern, fierce, cruel, raging, furious, wroth → obs.
1374 ► ASPRE stern, harsh, severe → obs.
1400 ► HARAGEOUS stern, cruel, violent → obs.
1509 ► RIGORIOUS stern, fierce, severe → obs.
1513 ► HARD-FAVOURED stern-faced; having a hard or unpleasing appearance or look; coarse-featured → arch.
1733 ► ATROCIOUS stern, terrible, fierce; extremely violent → obs.
1768 ► SAIR stern, severely censorious; harsh in discipline, treatment, or judgement → Sc.
1830 ► CAST-IRON stern, unbending, rigid; hard, insensible to fatigue; inflexible, unyielding
1862 ► HARD AS NAILS stern and unyielding; harsh; pitiless
1864 ► MAROONJUS → MORUNGEOUS stern, harsh; outrageous → Sc.
1887 ► DERN stern, hard → Eng. dial.
1887 ► SARTAIN stern, severe; steadfast → Eng. dial.
1892 ► IRON-FACE stern, obdurate, cruel, severe → Chinese Pidgin (Bk.)
1929 ► ATTERY stern, grim, stern;; angry, stormy; forbidding → Sc.
1940 ► STRAIGHT-FACED stern, unflinching → US sl.
NOUNS
1410 ► FELLNESS sternness, severity; fierceness, harshness, savagery → obs.
1641 ► ATROCITY sternness, fierceness, implacability → arch.
NOUNS, PERSON
1450 ► GRIMSIR a stern, austere, morose, or overbearing person; a grim old man → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1977 ► NUTCRACKER a stern person; a strict disciplinarian, esp. a woman who crushes a man’s spirit → US sl.
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