Rig'or, n.
n. [Lat. rigor, from rigere, to be stiff; It. rigore, Sp. & Pg. rigor, Pr. riguor, Fr. rigueur. See RIGID.] [Written also rigour.]
Sense 1. The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidness; stiffness; hardness.
The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. Milton.
Sense 2. (Med.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or slight tremor, as in the cold fit of a fever. Coxe. Parr.
Sense 3. Severity of climate or season; as, the rigor of winter.
Sense 4. Stiffness of opinion or temper; severity; sternness.
All his rigor is turned to grief and pity. Denham.
Sense 5. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin. Addison.
Sense 6. Exactness without allowance, latitude, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor.
I tell you 'tis rigor, and not law. Shak.
Sense 7. Violence; fury; fierceness. [Obs.]
Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay. Spencer.
Synonyms—Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity; austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.