Meanings (ES + gloss)
adusto • apremiante • severo
Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world…
stern as tutors, and as uncles hard
adusto
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
these barren rocks, your stern inheritance