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Rigour   Listen
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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... returning, as late as twenty minutes to eleven, from his tobacco promenade along the terrace, reported to Manton 'a row in town'; and he repeated to Nesta the policeman's opinion and his own of the 'Army' fellows, and the way to treat them. Both were for rigour. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... were rejected and force was threatened to be used. There happened to be a merchant from Manilla then residing at Macao, a man of excellent character, who had long carried on a commerce between the two ports. This unfortunate man was selected to be the innocent victim to appease the rigour of Chinese justice, and ...
— Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey thr • John Barrow
... getting far from our story. Going a little further down the hill, there is a lane to the right. This always was a dirty, ill-conditioned lane, of bad repute and habits. Father Mathew and the rigour of the police have of late somewhat mended its manners and morals. Here too one now sees, but a short way from the main street, the grand new stirring poor-house, which ten years ...
— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope
... 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 ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope
... Majesty's subjects; the contrary of this has, however, been too frequently the case, and some of the masters of the transports who have been entrusted with these captives, have treated them with such uniform rigour that numbers have perished through the intensity of their sufferings. This want of care is to be attributed to the former custom of contracting for the transport of the convicts at so much per head, so that the master has ...
— The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) • David Dickinson Mann


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