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Rigid

adjective

Incapable of or resistant to bending. Synonym: stiff. "A table made of rigid plastic" , "A palace guardsman stiff as a poker" , "Stiff hair" , "A stiff neck"

Incapable of compromise or flexibility. Synonym: strict.

Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances. Synonyms: inflexible, unbending. "An inflexible law" , "An unbending will to dominate"

Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure.

Fixed and unmoving. Synonyms: fixed, set. "His bearded face already has a set hollow look" , "A face rigid with pain"

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"Rigid" Quotes from Famous Books

... priests must obey bishops, and bishops must obey the First Consul. An alliance with the Pope offered to Bonaparte the means of supplanting the popular organisation of the Constitutional Church by an imposing hierarchy, rigid in its orthodoxy and unquestioning in its devotion to himself. In return for the consecration of his own rule, Bonaparte did not shrink from inviting the Pope to an exercise of authority such as the Holy See had never even claimed in France. The whole of the existing ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

... over-potent charms To violate the sacred trust of silence Deposited within thee; which to have kept Tacit, was in thy power; true; and thou hear'st 430 Enough, and more the burden of that fault; Bitterly hast thou paid, and still art paying That rigid score. A worse thing yet remains, This day the Philistines a popular Feast Here celebrate in Gaza, and proclaim Great Pomp, and Sacrifice, and Praises loud To Dagon, as their God who hath deliver'd Thee Samson bound and blind into thir hands, Them out of thine, ...

— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton

... spoke, there swept round the corner a man rigid on his rushing horse, with the rush and rigidity of an arrow. He had a smile that thrust out his chin as if it were dislocated. He swept alongside of the stationary car, into which its company had crowded, and laid his hand on the front. It was the Secretary, and his mouth went ...

— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton

... while he conferred upon Mr. Gwynn his whole respect. In good truth, the less Mr. Gwynn said and the less he seemed to hear and understand, the more Senator Hanway did him honor in his heart. The rigid witlessness of Mr. Gwynn fairly came over him as the token and sign of an indubitable nobility, and it was with a feeling treading upon reverence for that wonderful man that Senator ...

— The President - A novel • Alfred Henry Lewis

... thy heart for me to gratify?" And Sita smiles and answers: "I long, O son of Raghu, to visit the pure and holy hermitages on the banks of the Ganges and to venerate the feet of the saints who there perform their rigid austerities and live on roots and berries. This is my chief desire, to stand within the hermits' grove were it but for a single day." And Rama said: "Let not the thought trouble thee: thou shalt go to the grove of the ascetics." But slanderous tongues have been busy in Ayodhya, ...

— The Ramayana • VALMIKI

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