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noun

Rigorism n.

Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; opposed to laxity.

Severity, as of style, or the like.

(Ethics) Strictness in ethical principles; usually applied to ascetic ethics, and opposed to ethical latitudinarianism.

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Etymology of 'Rigorism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rigorism" Quotes from Famous Books

... matters. As her dogma, for instance, is assailed from opposite sides,—as she has had to defend the divine nature of Christ against the Ebionites, and His humanity against Docetism, and was attacked both on the plea of excessive rigorism and excessive laxity (Clement Alex., Stromata, iii. 5),—so in politics she is arraigned on behalf of the political system of every phase of heresy. She was accused of favouring revolutionary principles in the time of Elizabeth and ...

— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... years of age, and by his talent, his zeal for the new religion, and his faithfulness, he rose rapidly until he became Bishop of Carthage. He was an orator, a writer, and a teacher. His immoderate zeal led him into the vice of rigorism, quite foreign to the real spirit of the Christian religion. He joined the Montanists, a sect that believed in withdrawal from the world, the unlawfulness of second marriages, and the speedy second advent of the Savior. Having received a thorough training ...

— History of Education • Levi Seeley