Fierceness, roughness (of the weather or the sea); cruelty, severity.

The quality or condition of being grim; fierceness; sternness; formidable aspect.

The quality or condition of being stern, strict, severe, resistant to emotion, callous, etc. Also: an instance of this.

Sternness, severity.

Severity, harshness in punishment; censure, rebuke, etc.; asperity in behaviour.

Violence, harm; harshness, harsh treatment; severity, strictness, rigour.

= fierceness, n.

Severity of disposition or mood; rigour in punishment or condemnation; an instance of this; hardness, harshness, obduracy, †fierceness.

Sternness, severity. Obsolete.

Fierceness, violence; harshness, sternness.

With reference to a person or animal, their actions or attributes: fierceness, harshness, savagery; cruelty; malignity; an instance of this. In early…

Sternness of manner, appearance, or disposition; severity in judgement; (esp. of a law or judgement) harshness, severity.

Fear, terror.

Austere quality or character; harshness, sternness, severity; (also) severe self-denial, asceticism.

Strictness or sternness in dealing with others; stern or rigorous disposition or behaviour; rigour in treatment, discipline, punishment, or the like.

Severity, rigour.

Severity, strictness, rigour. Obsolete.

Severity.

Of persons, their feelings, or the expression of these: Characterized by, exhibiting, or expressing delicacy of feeling or susceptibility to the…

figurative. Acerbity, severity. Obsolete.

figurative. Harshness, sternness, austerity.

Draconic character. (See Draconic, adj. 1.)

The quality or condition of being hard-handed (in various senses).

Of a person, or a person's character, conduct, etc.: sternness, harshness. Cf. stark, adj. 2d. Obsolete.