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rigour

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rigor  \Rig"or\,  n.  [OE.  rigour,  OF  rigour,  F.  rigueur  from  L. 
  rigor,  fr  rigere  to  be  stiff.  See  {Rigid}.]  [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  --Milton. 
 
  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.  --Denham. 
 
  If  I  shall  be  condemn'd  Upon  surmises,  .  .  .  I  tell 
  you  'T  is  rigor  and  not  law.  --Shak. 
 
  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.  --Addison. 
 
  7.  Violence;  force;  fury.  [Obs.] 
 
  Whose  raging  rigor  neither  steel  nor  brass  could 
  stay.  --Spenser. 
 
  Syn:  Stiffness;  rigidness;  inflexibility;  severity; 
  austerity;  sternness;  harshness;  strictness;  exactness. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rigour 
  n  1:  the  quality  of  being  logically  valid  [syn:  {cogency},  {validity}, 
  {rigor}] 
  2:  something  hard  to  endure;  "the  asperity  of  northern  winters" 
  [syn:  {asperity},  {grimness},  {hardship},  {rigor},  {severity}, 
  {rigorousness}]




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