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Exacting severity
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rigorousness
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity , grimness , hardship , rigor , rigour , severity ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being rigorous, strictness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rigorous \Rig"or*ous\, a. [F. rigoureux, LL. rigorosus. See Rigor .] Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous ...
Usage examples of rigorousness.
Rigor glints from her eye, rigorousness from the set of her jaw, Catholic grandeur and reparation from her spavined fingers.