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What is the noun for rigor?

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rigour
  1. Severity or strictness.
  2. A trembling or shivering response.
  3. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
  4. Shrewd questioning.
  5. Higher level of difficulty.
  6. (Britain, slang) Misspelling of rigor. An abbreviated form of rigour mortis.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “It raises the question of whether the full rigour of the penalty points system will be brought to bear upon speeding civilian ministerial drivers.”
      “His experiments with Cubism, however, had none of the quality of intellectual rigour associated with Picasso and Braque, for Zadkine's primary concern was with dramatically expressive forms.”
      “Some few of the hardiest natives of these inhospitable regions appear to be capable of enduring the rigour of a northern winter.”
rigor
  1. US spelling of rigour
  2. (slang) an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Three male Quaker preachers endured the rigor of this cruel law, but all the exertions of the provincial authorities proved unavailing.”
      “Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.”
      “With regard to biodiversity, the team had much less confidence in the rigor of the calculations.”
rigorist
  1. Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We refer to John's particular evaluation because the church later on did not follow the rigorist position of John on these matters.”
      “His theology and his disciplines were rigorist, but he as a man who lived them himself with great commitment and dedication.”
      “It is clear, however, that both the indifferentist position and the rigorist position pose serious problems from a moral and theological perspective.”
rigorization
  1. Conversion into a mathematically rigorous form.
rigorousness
  1. The property of being rigorous, strictness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The rigorousness of the training at Odiham, including English language lessons, was considered particularly onerous by many of those who passed through the base.”
      “Any practitioner who takes their profession in earnest will recognize in this book the rigorousness of the analysis.”
      “The seventies were very sleek and empty, more concerned with structure, form, and a certain kind of ascetic rigorousness.”
rigorism
  1. strictness (in interpreting or enforcing a rule)
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He worked with rigorism accentuated by simple form and minimalist details.”
      “Nevertheless the rigorism of his ascetic resolve was never relaxed.”
      “We have gone from rigorism and taboo to permissiveness that places no limits on desire.”
rigourousness
  1. Nonstandard spelling of rigorousness.
rigorisation
  1. Rare spelling of rigorization.
rigourization
  1. Rare spelling of rigorization.
rigourisation
  1. Rare spelling of rigorization.
rigourism
  1. Alternative form of rigorism
rigourist
  1. Alternative form of rigorist
rigorizations
  1. plural of rigorization
rigorousnesses
rigourisms
  1. plural of rigourism
rigourists
  1. plural of rigourist
rigorisms
rigorists
  1. plural of rigorist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Against the rigorists, I am inclined to agree with Cardinal Ratzinger that a measure of flexibility and openness is in order.”
      “Various groups of rigorists began openly to accuse their opponents of laxity in the observance of poverty and even to disobey their superiors.”
rigours
  1. plural of rigour
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After only three years her natural frailty and the rigours of her ascetic devotions killed her.”
      “To those who know him, he isn't a novelty act or a weakling who couldn't hack the rigours of the infantry.”
      “Murray seems to have realised he is not fit enough to stand the rigours of competing at the highest level, week in, week out.”
rigors
  1. plural of rigor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In my judgment, the rule is that exemption from the rigors of war is in the control of the Executive.”
      “However, the rigors of the flight from Los Angeles to Bogota had proved too exhausting.”
      “In that case, such a hypothesis would then have to withstand the rigors of both scientific method and peer review.”
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