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 rigour
 嚴格,嚴厲,苛刻,嚴酷,嚴密,精確

 Rig·or n.  [Written also rigour.]
 1. The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
 The rest his look
 Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.   --Milton.
 2. Med. See 1st Rigor, 2.
 3. Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
 4. Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
    All his rigor is turned to grief and pity.   --Denham.
 If I shall be condemn'd
 Upon surmises, . . . I tell you
 'T is rigor and not law.   --Shak.
 5. Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
 6. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
    The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin.   --Addison.
 7. Violence; force; fury. [Obs.]
    Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay.   --Spenser.
 Syn: -- Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity; austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.
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 rigour
      n 1: the quality of being logically valid [syn: cogency, validity,
            rigor]
      2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
         [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, severity,
          rigorousness]
      3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness
         of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
         [syn: severity, harshness, rigor, inclemency, hardness,
          stiffness]