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noun. Strictness or severity, as in action or judgment.

noun. A harsh or trying circumstance; a hardship or difficulty: synonym: difficulty.

noun. A harsh or severe act.

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noun. Strictness in adhering to standards or a method; exactitude.

noun. A standard or exacting requirement, as of a field of study.

noun. Shivering or trembling, as caused by a chill.

noun. A state of rigidity in living tissues or organs that prevents response to stimuli.

noun. Stiffness or rigidity.

noun. The state or property of being stiff or rigid; stiffness; rigidity; rigidness.

noun. The property of not bending or yielding; inflexibility; stiffness; hence, strictness without allowance, latitude, or indulgence; exactingness: as, to execute a law with rigor; to criticize with rigor.

noun. Severity of life; austerity.

noun. Sternness; harshness; cruelty.

noun. Sharpness; violence; asperity; inclemency: as, the rigor of winter.

noun. That which is harsh or severe; especially, an act of injustice, oppression, or cruelty.

noun. (rī′ gor). [NL.] In pathology, a sudden coldness, attended by shivering more or less marked, which ushers in many diseases, especially fevers and acute inflammation: commonly called chill. It is also produced by nervous disturbance or shock. [In this sense always spelled rigor.]

noun. Synonyms and Rigor, Rigidity, Rigidness, inclemency. There is a marked tendency to use rigidity of physical stiffness. Rigidity seems to take also the passive, while rigor takes the active, of the moral senses; as, rigidity of manner, of mood; rigor in the enforcement of laws. Rigidness perhaps holds a middle position, or inclines to be synonymous with rigidity. Rigor applies also to severity of cold. See austere.

noun. Rigidity; stiffness.

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

noun. a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50° C.

noun. 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.

noun. The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.

noun. See 1st Rigor, 2.

noun. Severity of climate or season; inclemency

noun. Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.

noun. Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; ; -- opposed to lenity.

noun. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.

noun. Violence; force; fury.

noun. Alternative spelling of rigour.

noun. an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.

noun. the quality of being valid and rigorous

noun. something hard to endure

noun. excessive sternness

"Whatever this kind of blog discourse may lack in conventional "rigor" is certainly balanced out by its immediacy and its enthusiasm."

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believability  credibility  credibleness  sternness  strictness  

Digger  bigger  digger  nigger  trigger  

austerity  clearness  coldness  correctness  dryness  

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