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Strict follower
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rigorist
Word definitions for rigorist in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rigorist \Rig"or*ist\, n. [Cf. F. rigoriste.] One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
Usage examples of rigorist.
The marquis was a rigorist, and though he had a tincture of Jansenism he often differed from St.
And here I may remark, that a mellowing rigorist is always a much pleasanter object to contemplate than a tightening liberal, as a cold day warming up to 32 Fahrenheit is much more agreeable than a warm one chilling down to the same temperature.
Despite the later dispensation from Agathios, some rigorist priests still condemned Philetos for that.
The Avtokrator waited for some outraged rigorist, layman or priest, to chuck a cobblestone at this fellow.
With Petronas and Gnatios still to worry about, Krispos put off a decision on his rigorist patriarch.
Ali, the fourth Khalif, the Kharijites rebelled, demanding, as democratic rigorists, the free election of khalifs without restriction to the tribe of Qoraish or to any other descent.
In theology they were rigorists, too much disposed to defer absolution and to give long penances.
It was not a fog of the first class, for it was pure white and rigorists might maintain that it was merely a thick river mist.
If you oust me, rigorists would rebel against whatever pliant prelate you put in my place.
If I acceded to your demands, those same rigorists would rebel against me.
The marquis was a rigorist, and though he had a tincture of Jansenism he often differed from St.
If I acceded to your demands, those same rigorists would rebel against me.
The schism we have discussed on other occasions may well come to pass because of our agreement: The rigorists will maintain—will strongly maintain—I am yielding to secular pressure here.