Definition of rigor

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Rigor (n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

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Impleadable :: Impleadable (a.) Not admitting excuse, evasion, or plea; rigorous..
Ascetic :: Ascetic (n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things..
Relax :: Relax (v. i.) To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) 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..
Moderate :: Moderate (a.) Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained.
Myosin :: Myosin (n.) An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma..
Undue :: Undue (a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law..
Hypercriticism :: Hypercriticism (n.) Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism..
Stern :: Stern (superl.) Having a certain hardness or severity of nature, manner, or aspect; hard; severe; rigid; rigorous; austere; fixed; unchanging; unrelenting; hence, serious; resolute; harsh; as, a sternresolve; a stern necessity; a stern heart; a stern gaze; a stern decree..
Strict :: Strict (a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention..
Lenity :: Lenity (n.) The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.
Oppress :: Oppress (v. t.) To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty..
Rigidity :: Rigidity (n.) Severity; rigor.
Ague :: Ague (n.) The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague..
Rigorism :: Rigorism (n.) Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
Horror :: Horror (n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor..
Sequacious :: Sequacious (a.) Having or observing logical sequence; logically consistent and rigorous; consecutive in development or transition of thought.
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter..
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Rigidity; stiffness.
Rigorous :: Rigorous (a.) Violent.
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