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Vigour

//ˈvɪɡɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Active strength or force of body or mind; a capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy. countable, uncountable

    "The vigour of this arm was never vain"

  2. 2
    an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) wordnet
  3. 3
    Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action. countable, uncountable

    "A plant grows with vigour."

  4. 4
    active strength of body or mind wordnet
  5. 5
    Strength; efficacy; potency. countable, uncountable

    "But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find."

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  1. 6
    forceful exertion wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeō (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be lively”). Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker.

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