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The following text is from George Eliot's 1871–1872 novel Middlemarch.

Even the severe Mr. Casaubon, who rarely troubled himself to praise anything and whose approval was notoriously difficult to earn, allowed that the young woman's translations displayed unusual care.

As used in the text, what does the word “severe” most nearly mean?


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