Crossword clues for rigor
rigor
- Difficulty
- Martinet's imposition
- Martinet's quality
- Strict precision
- Feeling of chilliness initially from repellant assistant
- Extreme severity
- Laxity's opposite
- It's hard to endure
- Careful scrutiny
- Quality of a good math proof
- No-nonsense nature
- Leniency's opposite
- Lack of flexibility
- Intellectual precision
- Inflexible nature
- Inflexible accuracy
- Highest scientific standards
- Extreme effort
- Demanding quality
- _____ mortis
- ___ mortis (post-death stiffness)
- ___ mortis
- Extreme hardship
- Exactitude
- Asperity
- Severity, as of rules
- Inflexibility
- Stringency
- Hardship
- Discipline
- Strictness
- Austerity
- Demanding standard
- Inexorability
- Boot camp experience
- Harshness of rules
- Stiffness (after death?)
- Lack of laxness
- Ordeal's quality
- Attention to detail
- The quality of being logically valid
- Excessive sternness
- Something hard to endure
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rigor \Rig"or\, n. [OE. rigour, OF. rigour, F. rigueur, from L. rigor, fr. rigere to be stiff. See Rigid.] [Written also rigour.]
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The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.
--Milton. (Med.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
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.
All his rigor is turned to grief and pity.
--Denham.If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, . . . I tell you 'T is rigor and not law.
--Shak. 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.
The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin.
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Violence; force; fury. [Obs.]
Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay.
--Spenser.Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity; austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.
Rigor \Ri"gor\, n. [L. See Rigor., below.]
Rigidity; stiffness.
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(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 mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50[deg] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French rigor "strength, hardness" (13c., Modern French rigueur), from Latin rigorem (nominative rigor) "numbness, stiffness, hardness, firmness; roughness, rudeness," from rigere "be stiff" (see rigid).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (alternative spelling of rigour from=US English) 2 (context slang English) an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.
WordNet
n. something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigour, severity, rigorousness]
the quality of being logically valid [syn: cogency, validity, rigour]
excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, harshness, rigour, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]
Wikipedia
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.