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Rigour

//ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Severity or strictness. countable, uncountable

    "And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour."

  2. 2
    excessive sternness wordnet
  3. 3
    Harshness, as of climate. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    something hard to endure wordnet
  5. 5
    A trembling or shivering response. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the quality of being valid and rigorous wordnet
  2. 7
    Character of being unyielding or inflexible. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    Shrewd questioning. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    Higher level of difficulty. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”). British, alt-of, countable, misspelling, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.

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