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Rigor - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Rigor : (noun)
1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
[syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigour, severity,
rigorousness]
2: the quality of being logically valid [syn: cogency, validity,
rigour]
3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[syn: severity, harshness, rigour, inclemency, hardness,
stiffness]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Rigor : \Ri"gor\, n. [L. See Rigor., below.]
1. Rigidity; stiffness.
2. (ed.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin;
a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill
preceding a fever.
Rigor caloris[L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of
rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a
mammal is heated to about 50[deg]C.
Rigor mortis[L., rigor of death], death stiffening; the
rigidity of the muscles that occurs at death and lasts
till decomposition sets in. It is due to the formation of
myosin by the coagulation of the contents of the
individual muscle fibers.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Rigor |
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andrew_graham: "Knowing" is a movie that examines Determinism with the Rigor of a bad Philosophy course. |
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