rigor /rīˈgör or rigˈər/

1. A sense of chilliness with contraction of the skin, a preliminary symptom of many diseases (medicine)
2. Failure to react to stimulus, under unfavourable conditions (botany)
3. A rigid irresponsive state caused by a sudden shock, as when an animal is said to sham dead (zoology)
4. /rigˈər/ another, chiefly American, spelling of rigour

rigorism /rigˈər-izm/ noun

1. Extreme strictness
2. The doctrine that in doubtful cases the strict course should be followed

rigˈorist noun

rigˈorous adjective

1. Rigidly strict or scrupulous
2. Exact
3. Unsparing
4. Severe
5. Harsh, violent (Spenser)

• self-justifications
• self-justificatory
• self-justifying
• self-killed
• self-killer
• self-killers
• self-knowing
• self-knowledge
• self-left
• selfless
• selflessly
• selflessness
• selflessnesses
• self-levelling
• self-life
• self-lighting
• self-like
• self-limited
• self-limiting
• self-liquidating
• self-loader
• self-loaders
• self-loading
• self-locking
• self-lost