Definition of rigor

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Rigor (n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification..

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Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Cutting in language or import; biting; sarcastic; cruel; harsh; rigorous; severe; as, a sharp rebuke..
District :: District (a.) Rigorous; stringent; harsh.
Austerity :: Austerity (n.) Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
Horror :: Horror (n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor..
Ascetic :: Ascetic (n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things..
Moderate :: Moderate (v. i.) To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated..
Liberal :: Liberal (a.) Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language..
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Violence; force; fury.
Critic :: Critic (n.) One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.
Strict :: Strict (a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention..
Mitigate :: Mitigate (v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief..
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
Rigorous :: Rigorous (a.) Violent.
Severity :: Severity (n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test..
Ague :: Ague (n.) The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague..
Rhadamanthine :: Rhadamanthine (a.) Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment..
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) 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..
Reddour :: Reddour (n.) Rigor; violence.
Steel :: Steel (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
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