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rigorously |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rigorous \Rig"or*ous\, a. [F. rigoureux LL rigorosus. See {Rigor}.] 1. Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands. --Shak. We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity. --De Quincey. 2. Severe; intense; inclement; as a rigorous winter. 3. Violent. [Obs.] ``Rigorous uproar.'' --Spenser. Syn: Rigid; inflexible; unyielding; stiff; severe; austere; stern; harsh; strict; exact. -- {Rig"or*ous*ly}, adv -- {Rig"or*ous*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rigorously adv : in a rigorous manner; "he had been trained rigorously by the monks" [syn: {strictly}]
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