Definition of rigor

"rigor" in the noun sense

1. asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness

something hard to endure

"the asperity of northern winters"

2. cogency, validity, rigor, rigour

the quality of being valid and rigorous

3. severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness

excessive sternness

"severity of character"

"the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"

"the rigors of boot camp"

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Quotations for rigor

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it. [ Burke ]

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game. [ Lamb ]

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth. [ John Ford ]

Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor. [ Macaulay ]

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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Words within the letters of rigor

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Word Growth involving rigor

Shorter words in rigor

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Longer words containing rigor

rigorist rigoristic rigoristical rigoristically

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rigorous rigorously

rigorous rigorousness

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