单词 | rigorism |
释义 | rigorismn. 1. Extreme strictness in interpreting or enforcing a law, precept, etc.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc. > strict or rigorous conformity austerenessa1450 rigour1536 preciseness1545 precisianism1573 rigorism1704 precisionism1868 1704 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed vi. 125 Your Morals have a Flavour of Rigorism. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 253 Blam'd for too great a Rigorism in their over zealous Orthodoxy against the Arians. 1809 T. Jefferson Let. 28 July in Papers (2004) Retirement Ser. I. 383 I had only to reduce the law to it's antient Saxon condition, stripping it of all the innovations & rigorisms of subsequent times. 1860 W. G. Ward Nat. & Grace i. 353 [The Church] has been no less watchful against any intrusion of rigorism and harshness. 1896 Academy 22 Feb. 150/3 The sermons are remarkable for their uncompromising rigorism. 1930 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 40 197 The rigorism of the fanatic who sacrifices everything to one virtue—be it truth, or justice, or bravery, or good form—is ethical blindness. 1963 M. G. Singer Generalization in Ethics viii. 226 Perhaps the most famous instance of Kant's rigorism is his almost fanatical insistence that it is always wrong to lie, that one may not lie even to save someone from being killed. 1999 Diogenes (Nexis) 49 110 Abd al-Qadiri..has been lead by Sufism to a form of Islamic rigorism which borders on fundamentalism. 2. Roman Catholic Church. A doctrine of the rigorist school of moral theology according to which in doubtful cases of conscience the strict course is always to be followed. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > moral theology > rigorist rigorism1715 1715 ‘C. Dodd’ Secret Policy Eng. Society of Jesus vii. 255 The affected Rigorism of the Jansenist and the austere Marks of Contrition in a repenting Sinner are not so very unlike. 1840 J. G. MacVicar Catholic Spirit True Relig. iii. 215 We find, along with this frame of mind, a demand in the same quarters from universal uniformity, and consequently a display of that rigourism by which alone such an attempt can be made. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 636/1 The line he draws is not..an intermediate one between rigorism and laxity. 1938 Mod. Lang. Rev. 33 538 Here Prévost amuses himself by opposing the indulgence of the Jesuits to the rigorism of the Jansenists. 1994 Guardian 16 Sept. i. 22/8 Rigorism and authoritarianism have undermined the moral credibility of the Pope, especially for the younger generation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704 |
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