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rigidness|ˈrɪdʒɪdnɪs| [f. rigid a. + -ness.] The state of being rigid; rigidity.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. ix. 81 That his rigidnesse frighted people from consulting with him. 1653G. Firmin Sober Reply 1 Mr. Cawdrey did justly taxe me with rigidnesse. 1680Nation's Interest rel. to Dk. York 30 Rigidness, Censuring and the Sword Inflame and Harden. 1796Morse Amer. Geogr. I. 333 note, His high idea of virtue giving him a rigidness, which makes it difficult for him to accommodate himself to those intrigues. 1853Maurice Proph. & Kings i. 9 The unchangeableness of God is not to be confounded with the rigidness of a rule or a system. |