austere

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Not yet so far sunk in sloth and debauch, the Byzantines were nevertheless hosts eminently dangerous to the austerer manners of their Greek visitors.

From Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Like him, while condemning excess and weakness, he did not conform to any austerer standard of morals than that of the world around him.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

But the prejudice against the play prevailing among other than the austerer classes long survived the work of this great reformer of the English stage.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

A child may be a legal child in Denmark or Australia, and a bastard in this austerer climate.

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

During the austerer days of the republic the derogation was unknown.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar