Meanings of more severity in English

Towards the gamekeeper the good man behaved with more severity.

When Sir Ralph got home, his ill-humour vented itself with more severity than usual.

According to your father, these angina attacks are recurring more frequently and with more severity.

The penalty of taking more than this legal interest was punished with more severity than theft.

He looks to them, naturally, with more severity.

In Gueldres Count Megen showed more severity, and entirely suppressed the Protestant sects and banished all their preachers.

She took interest in the housework, went to church regularly, and looked after her servant with more severity.

In France, more severity was exercised.

The subject of Mr. Francis again drew him back to Mr. Hastings, but with more severity of mind.

I followed, going over much the same ground as at Salem, but speaking with more severity of feeling.

They made slaves of many Indians, treating them with more severity than they treated their beasts of burden.

We must look to it, William, turning upon the young man with more severity than his voice often expressed.

Results: When individuals with AN reported greater concern over mistakes, they endorsed more severity in both AN and OCD core dimensions.

No doubt, precisely as you say, we do need a little more severity hereabouts, and would gain by adopting more human methods.

Moreover, the young master, a regular turncoat, as his comrades said, showed even more severity than the members of the Institute towards audacious beginners.

To charge those favourable representations, which men give of their own minds, with the guilt of hypocritical falsehood, would show more severity than knowledge.