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Rigor
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Rigidity; stiffness.
(2):
(n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
(3):
(n.) Violence; force; fury.
(4):
(n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
(7):
(n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
(8):
(n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
(9):
(n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Rigor'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/rigor.html. 1828.
