Definition of "sterner" [stern•er]

• Comparative form of stern: more stern (adjective)
• A director. (noun)

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• "Her father, Henry Rich, Lord Holland, the second son of the Earl of Warwick, has found place in sterner history than this."
• "If the brow slightly bent before her did slightly knit itself in sterner lines than common, she could not be sure of it, bent as it was; and when he looked up, there was no such expression there."
• "So much the sterner is the demand through the remaining ground for exquisite brevity."