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adjective

Rigorous adj.

Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration. "He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands." "We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity."

Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.

Violent. (Obs.) "Rigorous uproar."

(Mathematics, Logic) Adhering scrupulously and exactly to accepted principles; hence, logically valid; as, a rigorous proof.

Synonyms: Rigid; inflexible; unyielding; stiff; severe; austere; stern; harsh; strict; exact.

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Etymology of 'Rigorous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rigorous" Quotes from Famous Books

... that rigorous weather endured: a stifling cold; the folk passing about like smoking chimneys; the wide hearth in the hall piled high with fuel; some of the spring birds that had already blundered north into our neighbourhood besieging the ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) - The Master of Ballantrae • Robert Louis Stevenson

... spite of the most rigorous censorship of the Press Bureau, it has now become a matter of practical certainty that Prince Emil Rudolf von Zastrow, the youthful and very capable ruler of Boravia, who, during the last two or three years, has become one of the most brilliant ...

— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith

... had not always known how to take with equanimity the alarms and inconveniences that her generous invitation to the doctor's children had brought upon her. But she had been interested in the children, and it had been a good thing for her to become accustomed to the interruption of the too rigorous routine in which she had been living. Elsli's illness had been a deep and painful experience, but it had produced a blessed change in the whole tone of her life and spirit. Her new-born love for the ...

— Gritli's Children • Johanna Spyri

... underlying the motions occurring in mechanisms. These principles are demonstrated by a study of mechanisms already in existence, such as the linkage of a retractable landing gear, computing mechanisms, mechanisms used in an automobile, and the like. A systematic, if not rigorous, approach to the design of gears and cams also is usually presented in such a course. Until recently, however, no serious attempt was made to apply the principles developed in kinematic analysis to the more complex problem of kinematic synthesis ...

— Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt • Eugene S. Ferguson

... Discipline was rigorous and cruel. We were knocked around and given terms of solitary confinement and made to stand at attention for hours at the least provocation. Many of the prisoners were killed—murdered by the cruelty. It became more than flesh and blood could stand. One day seven of us ...

— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various

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