Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person of strict or rigid principles or manners; in general, one who adheres to severity or purity in anything, as in style.
- noun One who maintained the doctrine of rigorism: a term sometimes applied to Jansenists. Also
tutiorist . - Characterized by strictness or severity in principles or practice; rigid; strict; exacting.
- Specifically, pertaining to rigorism in theology: as, rigorist doctrines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
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- noun Someone who takes the
strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For want of better terms, let's call (1) the "rigorist" position and (2) the "laxist" position.
Salvation at the golden mean Mike L 2007
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For want of better terms, let's call (1) the "rigorist" position and (2) the "laxist" position.
Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007
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Optimism had always been part of Mrs. Thatcher's appeal, too, but it was of a more rigorist kind.
What Would The Iron Lady Do? Charles Moore 2011
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Both Italy and Denmark have moved rightwards and a more rigorist attitude is surfacing.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Ireland certainly was morally rigorist up until a generation ago, but there were a number of historical forces driving this tendency other than heresy.
The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum 2009
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Antoinette's approach to faith was joyful and non-judgmental, free from the rigorist approach of Jansenism that so tainted a great deal of French piety in the years preceding the Revolution.
Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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If I may be a rigorist of another kind: PKTP, it not UV Ireland but the Latin Mass Society of Ireland.
The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum 2009
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Antoinette's approach to faith was joyful and non-judgmental, free from the rigorist approach of Jansenism that so tainted a great deal of French piety in the years preceding the Revolution.
Marie-Antoinette's Journey of Faith elena maria vidal 2009
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From this passage some might conclude that we should reject the whole ascetic attitude of Christianity as a residue of a rigorist or Manichean mentality that today we have left behind.
Archive 2008-06-01 papabear 2008
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Yet, as a moral rigorist, he had to contend with the skepticism and conventionalism voiced by Locke and David Hume and the attacks on metaphysics of Etienne de Condillac, Leonhard Euler,
Kant and Leibniz Wilson, Catherine 2008
hernesheir commented on the word rigorist
Also rigourist.
November 18, 2010