Definition of Rigor

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Definition of Rigor

Rigor

Rigidity; stiffness.

A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.

The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

See 1st Rigor, 2.

Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.

Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

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.

Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.

Violence; force; fury.

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Rigor Quotations

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Anna Quindlen

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
Morris Raphael Cohen

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the "hard" sciences so brilliantly successful.
Herbert Simon

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
George Chapman

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.
Lawrence R. Klein

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
Margaret Spellings

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
Gaston Caperton

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Marquis De Custine

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
John Cleveland

Rigor Translations

rigor in Dutch is stijfheid
rigor in Latin is severitas
rigor in Spanish is rigor

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