austerity

temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness., forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control (resolution) [more]., frugality; vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence; abstinence, abstemiousness; Encratism, prohibition; system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro; Pythagorism, Stoicism., vegetarian; Pythagorean, gymnosophist., teetotaler; abstainer; Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot.

be temperate; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, spare., know when one has had enough., take the pledge.

temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured (sufficient)., Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal.

severity; strictness, harshness; rigor, stringency, austerity; inclemency (pitilessness); arrogance; precisianism., arbitrary power; absolutism, despotism; dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression; assumption, usurpation; inquisition, reign of terror, martial law; iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway; tight grasp; brute force, brute strength; coercion; strong hand, tight hand., hard lines, hard measure; tender mercies [ironical]; sharp practice; pipe-clay, officialism., tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture; accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors.

be severe, assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample underfoot; tread underfoot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter (pitiless).

severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-shell [U.S.], relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement (ruthless); cruel (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.

severely; with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a tight hand, with a heavy hand., at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet.

hardness; rigidity; renitence, renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction; lapidification, lapidescence; vitrification, ossification; crystallization., stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board, deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail; brick, concrete; cement.

render hard; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper, ossify, vitrify; accrust.

hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated; gritty, proof., adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous; hard as a rock; stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker.