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 Definitions for Sterner: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Sterner \Stern"er\, n. [See 3d Stern.]
A director. [Obs. & R.] --Dr. R. Clerke.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Stern \Stern\, a. [Compar. Sterner; superl. Sternest.] [OE.
sterne, sturne, AS. styrne; cf. D. stuurish stern, Sw. stursk
refractory. [root]166.]
Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or
aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed;
unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as,
a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern
gaze; a stern decree.
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The sterne wind so loud gan to rout. --Chaucer.
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I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. --Shak.
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When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. --Shak.
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Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. --Dryden.
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These barren rocks, your stern inheritance.
--Wordsworth.
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Syn: Gloomy; sullen; forbidding; strict; unkind;
hard-hearted; unfeeling; cruel; pitiless.
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