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Sourness and harshness to the taste.

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  1. n. Sourness and harshness to the taste.
  2. n. Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
  3. n. Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.
  4. n. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
  5. n:100 n. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)