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What is a rigorist?

What is a rigorist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
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Eugene had to face rigorist opinions in his own relatives.
Jane Freilicher, with two transcendently no-nonsense floral still lifes in the show, is all of these, as is the whimsical rigorist Trevor Winkfield.
Even if this fear has a religious dimension, especially in the rigorist anti-Shiite Sunni backgrounds, it is the political aspect of the matter that concerns governments the most.
It is clear, however, that both the indifferentist position and the rigorist position pose serious problems from a moral and theological perspective.
Although essentially a legal rigorist, he was open to more-scientific methods of textual analysis insofar as they helped him to elucidate Talmudic texts.
We refer to John's particular evaluation because the church later on did not follow the rigorist position of John on these matters.

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