rigour
IPA: rˈɪgˈʊr
noun
- Severity or strictness.
- Harshness, as of climate.
- A trembling or shivering response.
- Character of being unyielding or inflexible.
- Shrewd questioning.
- Higher level of difficulty.
- (Britain) Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”). [(medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.]
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Examples of "rigour" in Sentences
- You look for reliability and rigour.
- It fails to address the issue with rigour.
- Equity was introduced to mitigate the rigour of the law.
- My comments are merely the result of grammatical rigour.
- I find the current article lacking in rigour and erroneous.
- There is hardly any rigour applied to the addition of words.
- The same rigour must be applied from both sides of the argument.
- Given the rigour of the alpine environment, Freda dressed practically.
- A standard implemented with the same rigour as the interpretation definition.
- He regularly dismissed the integrity and rigour of his own musical creations.
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