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rigor
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rigor \Ri"gor\, n. [L. See Rigor ., below.] Rigidity; stiffness. (ed.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever. Rigor caloris [L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor ...
Usage examples of rigor.
The worthy friend of Athanasius, the worthy antagonist of Julian, he bravely wrestled with the Arians and Polytheists, and though he affected the rigor of geometrical demonstration, his commentaries revealed the literal and allegorical sense of the Scriptures.
According to the rigor of the law, the emperor might have asserted his claim, and the prudent Atticus prevented, by a frank confession, the officiousness of informers.
Roman consul asserting the majesty of the republic, and declaring his inflexible resolution to enforce the rigor of the laws.
The difficulty of satisfying the constraints of variation within the bravura of overture or the rigor of fugue is considerable.
And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.
The Romans knew that it occurred in different manifestations: quartan and tertian, and a more serious form having no regular rhythmic recurrence of the rigors.
Rigor glints from her eye, Rigorousness from the set of her jaw, Catholic grandeur and reparation from her spavined fingers.
And all the while, her breasts bounced wildly and her cunt squeezed and sucked his invading prick with tender rigor.
The Bishop was grateful for the acta, but their lack of rigor interfered with the clarity of the process, and therefore the exorcist was to proceed according to his own judgment.
As for his initial concern that the rigors of Congress might be too much for someone of such delicate appearance, Adams had learned better.
The throne of the Almohades, or Unitarians, was founded on the blindest fanaticism, and their extraordinary rigor might be provoked or justified by the recent victories and intolerant zeal of the princes of Sicily and Castille, of Arragon and Portugal.
From the palace of Dastagerd, he pursued his march within a few miles of Modain or Ctesiphon, till he was stopped, on the banks of the Arba, by the difficulty of the passage, the rigor of the season, and perhaps the fame of an impregnable capital.
John Alasco, a Polish nobleman, being expelled his country by the rigors of the Catholics, settled during some time at Embden in East Friezland, where he became preacher to a congregation of the reformed.
These men were all trained and seasoned veterans of both the Union and Confederate armies--soldiers who were inured to the hardships and rigors of many campaigns and fierce battles, and thousands of them readily enrolled themselves under the Fenian banners in anticipation of a war being inaugurated against the British nation, with the invasion of Canada as the first step.
Extinguisher again, erect, proud and unbowed by the cruel rigors of the Lacandon jungle.