Definitions for rigour

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rigour rig·our

Spelling: [rig-er]

IPA: /ˈrɪg ər/

Rigour is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in rigour (giorru).

Definitions for rigour

noun

1. rigor.
2. strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
3. the full or extreme severity of laws, rules, etc.
4. severity of living conditions; hardship; austerity:
5. a severe or harsh act, circumstance, etc.
6. scrupulous or inflexible accuracy or adherence:
7. severity of weather or climate or an instance of this:
8. Pathology. a sudden coldness, as that preceding certain fevers; chill.
9. Physiology. a state of rigidity in muscle tissues during which they are unable to respond to stimuli due to the coagulation of muscle protein.
10. Obsolete. stiffness or rigidity.

Origin of rigour

1350-1400; Middle English rigour Latin rigor stiffness, equivalent to rig(ēre) to be stiff + -or -or¹

Examples for rigour

It was a snowy and sleety April morning, and she had already had experience of its rigour. '

The rich classes by turning day into night avoid much of its rigour.

He was penetrated by it, absorbed by it; he was rooted in it with a rigour of dumb attention.

But here was the man who, by every rigour of conventional life, had a right to her.

She told her story with sense and straightness, her frenzy subdued by the day's rigour.

Henry softened the rigour of his collaborator's pen in something like half an hour.

The failure of the rising only increased the rigour of the law.

With November winter fell upon the land in all its sub-Arctic rigour.

He threatens with all the rigour of the law those who dare to give his wife an asylum.

To grapple with this rigour one should have fed all one's life on blubber.