rigour
Meanings
Plural: rigours
Noun
- the quality of being valid and rigorous
- something hard to endure
- excessive sternness
- Severity or strictness.
- Harshness, as of climate.
- A trembling or shivering response.
- Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
- Shrewd questioning.
- Higher level of difficulty.
- Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
asperity, cogency, grimness, hardness, hardship, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness, validity
Scrabble Score: 7
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