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noun
Rigor  n.  (Written also rigour)  
1.
The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness. "The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move."
2.
(Med.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
3.
Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
4.
Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty. "All his rigor is turned to grief and pity." "If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises,... I tell you 'T is rigor and not law."
5.
Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; opposed to lenity.
6.
Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification. "The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin."
7.
Violence; force; fury. (Obs.) "Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay."
Synonyms: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity; austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.





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"Rigour" Quotes from Famous Books



... did get the money, but you would hardly believe the rigour of the pledge which was exacted from me for repayment. I got it from Harold Smith, and never, in my worst straits, will I again look to him for assistance. I borrowed it only for a fortnight; and in order that I might repay it, I was obliged to ask you for the price of ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... efforts failed to save the young men from the utmost rigour of the law. The judge, agreeing with the State prosecutor, declared that the most severe example was necessary to check once for all by its terrors the tendency of the common people to resist the ...
— The Waters of Edera • Louise de la Rame, a.k.a. Ouida
... infancy to the inclemency of the weather, and to the rigour of the different seasons; inured to fatigue, and obliged to defend, naked and without arms, their life and their prey against the other wild inhabitants of the forest, or at least to avoid their fury by flight, acquire a robust and almost unalterable ...
— A Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of - The Inequality Among Mankind • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... fled that night. Before pursuit could be begun, indeed before Sir John was traced or missed, he had left the kingdom. Repairing straight to a religious establishment, known throughout Europe for the rigour and severity of its discipline, and for the merciless penitence it exacted from those who sought its shelter as a refuge from the world, he took the vows which thenceforth shut him out from nature and his kind, and ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens
... alike, that we can hardly even in imagination conceive what would be the condition of things if the public administration favoured particular classes and looked askance on the rights of one class, whilst it enforced with rigour the rights of another. Yet events which have been passing before our eyes may show any one how absolutely dependent we may be, at any moment, for our enjoyment of life, property, or freedom upon the authority and the equity of the Executive. Consider ...
— A Leap in the Dark - A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the - Bill of 1893 • A.V. Dicey


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