RIGOR
\ɹˈɪɡə], \ɹˈɪɡə], \ɹ_ˈɪ_ɡ_ə]\
Definitions of RIGOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
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excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
By Princeton University
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something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
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excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
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The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
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See 1st Rigor, 2.
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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.
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Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
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Violence; force; fury.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
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The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
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See 1st Rigor, 2.
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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.
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Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
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Violence; force; fury.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Stiffness; strictness; sternness; severity; as, the rigors of a northern winter; a, violent chill caused by cold or nervous shock.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The quality of being rigid or severe: stiffness of opinion or temper: strictness: severity of climate: (med.) a sense of chilliness attended by a shivering.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Stiffness of opinion; strictness; harshness; austerity.
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Inclemency, as of weather; asperity.
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A violent chill from cold or nervous shock.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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