Rigor Definition

rĭgər
rigors
noun
rigors
Harshness or severity.
Webster's New World
A harsh or trying circumstance; a hardship or difficulty.
The rigors of working in a coal mine.
American Heritage
Exactness in precision or accuracy; exactitude.
Webster's New World
A severe, harsh, or oppressive act, etc.
Webster's New World
A standard or exacting requirement, as of a field of study.
The intellectual rigors of advanced mathematics.
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Origin of Rigor

  • Middle English rigour from Old French from Latin rigor from rigēre to be stiff reig- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidness, rigor, cold, harshness"), from rigere (“to be rigid").

    From Wiktionary

Rigor Sentence Examples

  • How can we maintain academic rigor through this process?

  • A jacket isn't meant to withstand the rigor of harsh winter weather, and as such is unlikely to provide much comfort in the face of, say, a snowstorm.

  • Just ask anyone whose job demands a uniform sturdy enough to stand up to daily rigor and activity - the shoes are just as important as the clothes.

  • Essenes had very strict rules against breaking the sabbath which they observed with fervent rigor.

  • In a well-marked case there is usually an initial rigor - in children convulsions - followed by a rise of temperature, with vomiting, headache, giddiness, intolerance to light; pain in epigastrium, back and limbs; sleeplessness, apathy or delirium.

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