Definitions for rigours

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rigours rig·our

Spelling: [rig-er]

IPA: /ˈrɪg ər/

Rigours is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in rigours (giorrsu).

Definitions for rigours

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 rigours

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

Examples for rigours

He's going to live on deck to inure himself to the rigours of the Arctic climate.

His heart's blood was chilled by the rigours of his fortune.

Then you experienced the rigours of intolerance there, in some measure, did you?

His rigours have rendered His gentleness the more needful for them.

Such products are not suited for the rigours of public life, and need to be adapted, at the very least by sewing in hem weights.

The lady must depart; if she goes not, the rigours of the law will crush her.

To resist the rigours of the winter, this surface must be impregnable.

Then the rigours of my captivity were still further increased.

For the next week Pincher was undergoing the rigours of No. 10 punishment.

Are the northern kingdoms of Europe bare of life because of the winter rigours?'