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- noun Plural form of
sternness .
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"Why," said the youth, smiling, and taking her hand in reply, "why should I fear to linger in a region, where one so much more alive to its sternnesses than myself may yet dare to abide?
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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