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rigour n. 嚴格,嚴厲,苛刻,嚴酷,嚴密,精確 嚴格,嚴厲,苛刻,嚴酷,嚴密,精確 rigour n 1: the quality of being valid and rigorous [ synonym: { cogency}, { validity}, { rigor}, { rigour}] 2: something hard to endure; " the asperity of northern winters" [ synonym: { asperity}, { grimness}, { hardship}, { rigor}, { rigour}, { severity}, { severeness}, { rigorousness}, { rigourousness}] 3: excessive sternness; " severity of character"; " the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; " the rigors of boot camp" [ synonym: { severity}, { severeness}, { harshness}, { rigor}, { rigour}, { rigorousness}, { rigourousness}, { inclemency}, { hardness}, { stiffness}] Rigor \ Rig" or\, n. [ OE. rigour, OF. rigour, F. rigueur, from L. rigor, fr. rigere to be stiff. See { Rigid}.] [ Written also { rigour}.] 1. The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness. [ 1913 Webster] The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Med.) See 1st { Rigor}, 2. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard- heartedness; cruelty. [ 1913 Webster] All his rigor is turned to grief and pity. -- Denham. [ 1913 Webster] If I shall be condemn' d Upon surmises, . . . I tell you ' T is rigor and not law. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. 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}. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification. [ 1913 Webster] The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Violence; force; fury. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity; austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness. [ 1913 Webster]
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