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Rigorously

Rigorous \Rig"or*ous\, a. [F. rigoureux, LL. rigorosus. See Rigor.]

  1. Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.

    He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands.
    --Shak.

    We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity.
    --De Quincey.

  2. Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.

  3. Violent. [Obs.] ``Rigorous uproar.''
    --Spenser.

  4. (Mathematics, Logic) Adhering scrupulously and exactly to accepted principles; hence, logically valid; as, a rigorous proof.

    Syn: Rigid; inflexible; unyielding; stiff; severe; austere; stern; harsh; strict; exact. [1913 Webster] -- Rig"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Rig"or*ous*ness, n.

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rigorously

adv. In a rigorous manner.

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rigorously

adv. in a rigorous manner; "he had been trained rigorously by the monks" [syn: strictly]

Usage examples of "rigorously".

What intimacy we shared was rigorously controlled, confined to the flat in Britten Street, and never referred to in a wider context.

Such a discipline has the potential to be profoundly contemplative as well as rigorously scientific, and I believe it is the most promising, pluralistic mode of inquiry for discovering deep truths concerning consciousness and its role in the natural world.

Her entire evening had been rigorously regimented, planned out ahead of time with the precision of a professional military operation.

Punished for representing the world in the cubist fashion he prefers, he responds to the demand for a mural with a spitefully allegorical work that objectifies women and rigorously critiques representational art.

Even these chosen freedmen obtained no more than the private rights of citizens, and were rigorously excluded from civil or military honors.

To determine the difficulties which had arisen with regard to Holland, which Dumouriez dreamed of conquering with an imaginary army, and being discontented besides with the Dutch for not rigorously excluding English vessels from their ports, the Emperor constituted the Batavian territory a kingdom under his brother Louis.

Moreover, with its increasing appeal to the masses in eleventh-century Khurasan, Sufism became a social force, as well as the spiritual exercise it had been when restricted to a few rigorously trained initiates.

Stellar Group were explicit and rigorously enforced: The Shellbacks were an intelligent species, even though the nature of their intelligence was not yet understood.

And in a rigorously Spinozistic sense, we must say that everything thus produced is exactly as authentic and as perfect as it is capable of being.

After the failure of the Theodosian line, the choice of Pulcheria and of the senate might be justified in some measure by the characters of Martin and Leo, but the latter of these princes confirmed and dishonored his reign by the perfidious murder of Aspar and his sons, who too rigorously exacted the debt of gratitude and obedience.

This justice was rigorously inflicted on some unfortunate youths of a royal race.

Rome alone, were ecclesiastical possessions so rich, or their establishments more splendid than at Venice, nowhere were the lines of power so jealously defined and guarded as in the government of this Republic from which ecclesiastics were rigorously excluded,--although no least ceremonial was held complete without the presence of the Patriarch and priests who evidenced the devotion of Venice to the Holy Mother Church,--though every parish kept its festa, and the religion of Venice was an essential part of the life of its people.

In particular, the subjective and moral spheresthe Left-Hand path, the interior pathpursued its own logics rigorously, and the Right-Hand path, that of the study of the objective and empirical exteriors, pursued its own course in isolation as well.

French, for the first time, and in this complete form, containing a large number of anecdotes and incidents not to be found in the spurious version, the work was not acceptable to the authorities, and was consequently rigorously suppressed.

Thyrian society by binding themselves with a code of ethics so stringent that the nongifted had no need to fear manipulation and by establishing this College, where they were rigorously trained.