| 单词 | stern necessity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstern necessity 8. Of circumstances and conditions, oppressive, compelling, hard, inexorable; esp. in the phrases stern necessity, stern reality. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > severity > [adjective] heavyc825 grimc900 strongeOE hardeOE drearyOE eileOE sweerOE deara1000 bitterOE tartc1000 smartOE unridec1175 sharp?c1225 straitc1275 grievousc1290 fellc1330 shrewda1387 snella1400 unsterna1400 vilea1400 importunea1425 ungainc1425 thrallc1430 peisant1483 sore?a1513 weighty1540 heinous?1541 urgent?1542 asperous?1567 dure1567 spiny1586 searching1590 hoara1600 vengible1601 flinty1613 tugging1642 atrocious1733 uncannya1774 severe1774 stern1830 punishing1833 hefty1867 solid1916 1830 T. Carlyle Richter Again in Misc. Ess. (1840) II. 309 Poverty of a sterner sort than this would have been a light matter to him. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 193 The great enterprise to which a stern necessity afterwards drove him. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 92 It is useless to deny the stern fact, that [etc.]. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 174 The times were too stern to admit of nice distinctions. 1912 Standard 20 Sept. 7/3 This is no flight of imagination; it is stern reality. < as lemmas |
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