Definition of "austerities" []

• Plural form of austerity. (noun)

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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."
• "In most spiritual traditions renunciation and austerities are considered essential practices to highlight and put our craving in perspective."
• "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."