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Rigorousness
noun
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Noun
- 1 The property of being rigorous, strictness. uncountable, usually
"Not the first nor the best and certainly not the most famous dictionary of the English language, Swansby’s has always been a poor shadow of its competitors as a work of reference – from the first printed edition in 1930 to today it has nowhere near the success nor rigorousness of Britannica and the Oxford English Dictionary."
- 2 excessive sternness wordnet
- 3 something hard to endure wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English rigoresnes, rigoresnesse, rigorousenes, equivalent to rigorous + -ness.
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