"rigour" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/ Audio: En-au-rigour.ogg Forms: rigours [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|rigour}} Middle English rigour, {{der|en|xno|-}} Anglo-Norman, {{der|en|fro|rigor}} Old French rigor, {{der|en|la|rigor||stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness}} Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), {{cog|fr|rigueur}} French rigueur Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} rigour (countable and uncountable, plural rigours)
  1. Severity or strictness. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (severity or strictness): стро́гост (strógost) [feminine] (Macedonian), су́ровост (súrovost) [feminine] (Macedonian), стро́гость (strógostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), суро́вость (suróvostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), твёрдость (tvjórdostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-rigour-en-noun-bkP6r8AG Disambiguation of 'severity or strictness': 96 2 0 0 0 0 1
  2. Harshness, as of climate. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (harshness): суровост (surovost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), ankaruus (Finnish), tiukkuus (Finnish), су́ровост (súrovost) [feminine] (Macedonian), vigor [masculine] (Norwegian), severitate [feminine] (Romanian), rigoare [feminine] (Romanian), суро́вость (suróvostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-rigour-en-noun-IYQCBQZ0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 54 3 20 5 3 14 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 1 59 4 20 5 4 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 57 3 19 7 4 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 64 3 19 4 3 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 2 46 4 18 11 5 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 2 46 4 19 9 5 15 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 2 52 5 16 10 6 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 2 60 4 15 6 5 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 2 58 4 18 6 4 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 2 48 4 16 9 5 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 2 45 4 16 10 6 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 2 48 4 16 9 5 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 2 48 4 16 9 5 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 2 60 4 15 6 5 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 2 48 4 16 9 5 16 Disambiguation of 'harshness': 3 86 1 7 1 1 2
  3. A trembling or shivering response. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (trembling or shivering response): оцепене́ние (ocepenénije) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-rigour-en-noun-n8IbZIES Disambiguation of 'trembling or shivering response': 0 1 95 0 1 1 1
  4. Character of being unyielding or inflexible. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (character of being unyielding or inflexible): непреклонност (nepreklonnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), joustamattomuus (Finnish), rigueur [feminine] (French), rigor [masculine] (Latin), непопу́стливост (nepopústlivost) [feminine] (Macedonian), неумо́ливост (neumólivost) [feminine] (Macedonian), rigurozitate [feminine] (Romanian), fermitate [feminine] (Romanian), неумоли́мость (neumolímostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), неукосни́тельность (neukosnítelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-rigour-en-noun-FDm3Pii7 Disambiguation of 'character of being unyielding or inflexible': 0 5 0 93 1 0 1
  5. Shrewd questioning. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-rigour-en-noun-hCDTYx6D
  6. Higher level of difficulty. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (higher level of difficulty): vaikeus (Finnish), тешко́тија (teškótija) [feminine] (Macedonian), rigor [masculine] (Portuguese), asprime [feminine] (Romanian), severitate [feminine] (Romanian), тя́готы (tjágoty) [plural] (Russian), тя́жесть (tjážestʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-rigour-en-noun-SqDUIHYB Disambiguation of 'higher level of difficulty': 0 1 1 0 2 94 2
  7. (British) Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”). Tags: British, alt-of, countable, misspelling, uncountable Alternative form of: rigor (extra: rigor mortis) Translations (an abbreviated form of rigor mortis): вкочанясване (vkočanjasvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-rigour-en-noun-IKRexcPX Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'an abbreviated form of rigor mortis': 1 2 3 1 5 3 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: rigor [US] Derived forms: rigorous

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "rigour"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English rigour",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "rigor"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French rigor",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "rigor",
        "4": "",
        "5": "stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "rigueur"
      },
      "expansion": "French rigueur",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "rigours",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "rigour (countable and uncountable, plural rigours)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:13–14:",
          "text": "And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Severity or strictness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Harshness, as of climate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A trembling or shivering response."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Character of being unyielding or inflexible."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Shrewd questioning."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Higher level of difficulty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "rigor mortis",
          "word": "rigor"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English misspellings"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rigor",
          "rigor#English"
        ],
        [
          "rigor mortis",
          "rigor mortis"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British) Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "alt-of",
        "countable",
        "misspelling",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-au-rigour.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/En-au-rigour.ogg/En-au-rigour.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-au-rigour.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪɡə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "rigor"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "rigger"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "rigor"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "strógost",
      "sense": "severity or strictness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стро́гост"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "súrovost",
      "sense": "severity or strictness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "су́ровост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "strógostʹ",
      "sense": "severity or strictness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "стро́гость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "suróvostʹ",
      "sense": "severity or strictness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "суро́вость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tvjórdostʹ",
      "sense": "severity or strictness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "твёрдость"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "surovost",
      "sense": "harshness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "суровост"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "harshness",
      "word": "ankaruus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "harshness",
      "word": "tiukkuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "súrovost",
      "sense": "harshness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "су́ровост"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "harshness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vigor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "harshness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "severitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "harshness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rigoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "suróvostʹ",
      "sense": "harshness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "суро́вость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ocepenénije",
      "sense": "trembling or shivering response",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "оцепене́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nepreklonnost",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "непреклонност"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "word": "joustamattomuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rigueur"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rigor"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nepopústlivost",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "непопу́стливост"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "neumólivost",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "неумо́ливост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rigurozitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fermitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neumolímostʹ",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "неумоли́мость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neukosnítelʹnostʹ",
      "sense": "character of being unyielding or inflexible",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "неукосни́тельность"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "higher level of difficulty",
      "word": "vaikeus"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "teškótija",
      "sense": "higher level of difficulty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тешко́тија"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "higher level of difficulty",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rigor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "higher level of difficulty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asprime"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "higher level of difficulty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "severitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tjágoty",
      "sense": "higher level of difficulty",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "тя́готы"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tjážestʹ",
      "sense": "higher level of difficulty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тя́жесть"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vkočanjasvane",
      "sense": "an abbreviated form of rigor mortis",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "вкочанясване"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "rigour"
  ],
  "word": "rigour"
}

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