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- noun Plural form of
austerity .
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Examples
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Incidentally, Lenten austerities have pared half a stone from my bulk – undetectable to the naked eye, but I feel sprightlier.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jean 2009
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I mention these austerities only to remind young scientists that some good research can be accomplished without lavish facilities and startup funds.
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In most spiritual traditions renunciation and austerities are considered essential practices to highlight and put our craving in perspective.
David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment David Nichtern 2011
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The secretary of state stuck to his new dogma that American support for the project would become unpopular among the Egyptian people, who “would blame the austerities they suffered” on the United States.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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I agree about the tediousness of the thank-yous, 1948 is a harder year to read, but that is a way to appreciate the austerities he underwent, and on top of that the decline of Mrs. Moore.
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In most spiritual traditions renunciation and austerities are considered essential practices to highlight and put our craving in perspective.
David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment David Nichtern 2011
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In most spiritual traditions renunciation and austerities are considered essential practices to highlight and put our craving in perspective.
David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment David Nichtern 2011
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The secretary of state stuck to his new dogma that American support for the project would become unpopular among the Egyptian people, who “would blame the austerities they suffered” on the United States.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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In most spiritual traditions renunciation and austerities are considered essential practices to highlight and put our craving in perspective.
David Nichtern: 5 Seducers That Steal Our Awareness and Contentment David Nichtern 2011
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The thought of the sufferings and death of Jesus was the one pervading thought: the Divine Offices and prayer were the sole occupation of the people: and, indeed, all the strength of the body was needed for the support of the austerities of fasting and abstinence.
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