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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly British Variant of rigor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. etc. See rigor, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Severity or strictness.
  2. n. A trembling or shivering response.
  3. n. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
  4. n. Shrewd questioning.
  5. n. Higher level of difficulty.
  6. n. UK, slang common misspelling of rigor. An abbreviated form of rigour mortis.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the quality of being valid and rigorous
  2. n. excessive sternness
  3. n. something hard to endure

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor ("stiffness, rigidness, rigor, cold, harshness"), from rigere ("to be rigid"). Compare French rigueur. (Wiktionary)

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