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US
/ˈɹɪɡɝ/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɪɡɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɪɡɐ/ ]
NOUN
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something hard to endure
the asperity of northern winters -
excessive sternness
the rigors of boot camp
severity of character
the harshness of his punishment was inhuman - the quality of being valid and rigorous
How To Use rigor In A Sentence
- Anybody who has tried to follow a rigorous diet will know how easy it is to lapse back into bad habits. Times, Sunday Times
- These will involve more rigorous checks on claimants to make sure their disability qualifies. The Sun
- Even the normal Perigordine fare of duck la gras and truffles washed down with red wine and pastis has yielded in favour of Scottish food and drink in celebration of the Auld Alliance.
- Above all put a rigorous, rich language back at the centre of political discourse. Times, Sunday Times
- We do our young people a great disservice by not teaching languages in a more rigorous, consistent and inspired fashion. Times, Sunday Times
- This "quidam," as she called him -- for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter -- had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
- The physics of electromagnetism is the result of rigorous experimentation. Matthew Yglesias » Downward Spiral
- This distillation is a rigorous expression of the particular knowledge that has been found most relevant. Archive 2007-07-01
- As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness. Jamie Stiehm: When Oliver Stone Makes a Movie, Bring It On
- He has not provided any rigorous analysis or even detailed explanation of these alleged technical problems.