"sternliest" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1837 November, [John Sterling], “[Poetry by our New Contributor.] Mirabeau.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XLII, number CCLXV, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 594",
          "text": "The law is holier than a sage’s prayer; / The godlike power bestowed on men demands of them a godlike care; / And noblest gifts, if basely used, will sternliest avenge the wrong, / And grind with slavish pangs the slave whom once they made divinely strong.",
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          "ref": "1889, Arthur Bennett, “The Inexplicable Sex”, in The Music of My Heart, Manchester: Palmer & Howe, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 123",
          "text": "In them [women], hypocrisy itself can charm: / It makes our young devotion doubly warm, / Draws while it drives, lures while it whispers “Go!” / Means “Yes!” when sternliest it answers “No!” / Request a kiss—at once a negative / Their lips of coral sternly frame!—but if / You note their eyes, the answer there belies it, / And he who doubts me, well, suppose he tries it?",
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          "ref": "1892 November, Aubrey [Thomas] de Vere, “[To [Alfred, Lord] Tennyson: The Tributes of His Friends] The Poet”, in James [Thomas] Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, volume XXXII, number CLXXXIX, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company […], page 841",
          "text": "None sang of Love more nobly; few as well; / Of Friendship none with pathos so profound; / Of Duty sternliest-proved when myrtle-crowned; / Of English grove and rivulet, mead and dell: […]",
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