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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 ]
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being rigorous, strictness.
Usage examples of rigorousness.
Rigor glints from her eye, rigorousness from the set of her jaw, Catholic grandeur and reparation from her spavined fingers.