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noun

Rigor n.

1.

Rigidity; stiffness.

2.

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

Rigor caloris (Physiol.), a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50° C.

Rigor mortis, death stiffening; the rigidity of the muscles that occurs at death and lasts till decomposition sets in. It is due to the formation of myosin by the coagulation of the contents of the individual muscle fibers.

Rigor n. (Written also rigour)

1.

The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness. "The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move."

2.

(Med.) See 1st Rigor, 2.

3.

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

4.

Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty. "All his rigor is turned to grief and pity." "If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises,... I tell you 'T is rigor and not law."

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.

6.

Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification. "The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin."

7.

Violence; force; fury. (Obs.) "Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay."

Synonyms: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity; austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.

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"Rigor" Quotes from Famous Books

... as the couple came before him, hand in hand, he took a chain of roses from the fallen pole and cast it about their necks. And so they were married. Love had softened rigor and all were better for the assertion of a common humanity. But the May-pole of Merrymount was never set up again. There were no more games and plays and dances, nor singing of worldly music. The town went to ruin, the merrymakers ...

— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner

... conforms fully to your definition, is any the less an interest or desire than the one that happens to be moving you at the instant. There would be as good ground for saying that your brother was the only brother, or your book the only book. Even if you abate the rigor of the proposition, you cannot escape its essential falsity. If you affirm that there are no interests but the interests of each, or that each man's interests are the only interests, you flatly contradict yourself. If you affirm ...

— The Moral Economy • Ralph Barton Perry

... the influence of Madame de Kruedener and the more baneful ascendency of Metternich everything was changed for the worse. The publication of Bibles was stopped; the censorship was re-established in its full rigor; Speranski's great undertaking of a Russian code of laws was nipped in the bud; Galytsin, the liberal Minister of Publication, had to resign, and Araktcheyev, a reactionary of extreme type, was put in his place. Some idea of the dark days that followed may be gathered from ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... Jennifer's grief or its cause, the faithful Indian had a thing to do and he did it, loosing his grasp of me to turn and fall upon Dick with pullings and haulings and buffetings, fit to bring a man alive out of a very stiffening rigor of despair. ...

— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde

... to die. Therefore, proceed, But yet hear this; mistake me not. No! life, I prize it not a straw:—but for mine honor. (Which I would free,) if I shall be condemned Upon surmises; all proof sleeping else, But what your jealousies awake; I tell you, 'Tis rigor and not law. ...

— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson

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