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.
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The rest his look
Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. --Milton.
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2. (Med.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
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3. Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor
of the storm; the rigors of winter.
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4. Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness;
hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
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All his rigor is turned to grief and pity. --Denham.
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If I shall be condemn'd
Upon surmises, . . . I tell you
'T is rigor and not law. --Shak.
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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.
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6. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain,
abstinence, or mortification.
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The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor
and austerity of a capuchin. --Addison.
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7. Violence; force; fury. [Obs.]
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Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could
stay. --Spenser.
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Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity;
austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[syn: severity, harshness, rigor, inclemency, hardness,
stiffness]
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