厳げん酷こく

na-adjective, noun

severity; rigor; strictness

Describes harsh, uncompromising strictness, often in rules, discipline, or conditions. Somewhat formal and less common in everyday speech than 厳しい.

• この学がっ校こうの規き則そくは厳げん酷こくだ。

  The rules of this school are severe.

• 彼かれは厳げん酷こくな訓くん練れんに耐たえた。

  He endured rigorous training.