rigor

[Ri·gor]

When a school boasts of its academic rigor, it means its students learn a lot and work really hard. Rigor means thoroughness and exhaustiveness––the gold standard for a good teacher.

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Rigidity; stiffness.

Noun
excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

Noun
something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"

Noun
the quality of being logically valid

n.
Rigidity; stiffness.

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A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.

n.
The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

n.
See 1st Rigor, 2.

n.
Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.

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

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.

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Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.

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Violence; force; fury.

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 preceeding 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°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.

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.

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.

If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, . . . I tell you 'T is rigor and not law.

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.

7. Violence; force; fury. [Obs.]

Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay.

Syn. -- Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity; austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.

Rigidity; stiffness.

The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

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Usage Examples

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?

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Other Usage Examples

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.