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rigour

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/

Definition of rigour

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Severity or strictness.
    “And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Severity or strictness.
    “And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Harshness, as of climate.
  3. (countable, uncountable)A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
  4. (countable, uncountable)Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
  5. (countable, uncountable)Shrewd questioning.
  6. (countable, uncountable)Higher level of difficulty.
  7. (British, alt-of, countable, misspelling, uncountable)Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).

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Etymology

From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.

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