Excessive sternness.
Measure of how resistant solid matter is to various kinds of permanent shape change when a force is applied.
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The stiffened hardness of the speaker in a measure affected the boy.
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The first confused hardness with progress; the second confused softness with progress.
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The Japanese struck an unexpected strain of hardness in the Korean character.
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Some of these approach the chrysoberyl and topaz in hardness and hue.
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None of the cynicism and hardness of Thackeray appear in her pages.
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The simplicity of the words contrasts with the hardness of their meaning.
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My heart was growing very hard; but the hardness has gone now.
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Each degree of hardness indicates the destruction and waste of 12 lb.
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It spoke of delight, not of hardness; of acquiescence, not of effort.
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A certain skeptic hardness was in her gaze as he visioned it.
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He felt the cool hardness of the polished stone beneath his fingers.
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His blanket takes away the hardness of the stone that supports him.
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The weight variation and surface roughness were not affected by the hardness.
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Takes us down to two. The hardness in my tone real enough.
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No human studies have examined hardness of diet in relation to obesity.
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He had often noticed in her voice and look an alarming hardness.
