Word Meanings - MOROSELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sourly; with sullen austerity.

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• SOURLY
  In a sour manner; with sourness.
• SULLEN
  French fr. LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. Wyclif . 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak. 3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. Such sullen planets
• AUSTERITY
  1. Sourness and harshness to the taste. Horsley. 2. Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton. 3. Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to