- Harshness
- Harshness of the truth after southeast
- rigidity
- Seriousness
- Tyranny
- The quality or state of being severe.
- Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor;
harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of
discipline or government; severity of penalties.
- Absolute rule
- Despotism
- Tyranny
- Independent or self-derived power; absolute or
controlling authority; supremacy.
- Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of
governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.
- Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a
state); autonomy.
- The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive
powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital
principle.
- Absolute rule
- Tyranny
- The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute
control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.
- A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic
monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
- Tyranny
- The state of being absolute; the system or doctrine of
the absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary
government; despotism.
- Doctrine of absolute decrees.