RIG'OR, n. [L. from rigeo, to be stiff. 1. Stiffness; rigidness; as Gorgonian rigor.2. In medicine, a sense of chilliness, with contradiction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or slight tremor, as in the cold fit of a fever.3. Stiffness of opinion or temper; severity; sternness.All his rigor is turned to grief and pity.4. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence or mortification.5. Strictness; exactness without allowance, latitude or indulgence; as the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor.6. violence; fury. [Not in use.]7. Hardness; solidity. [Unusual.]8. Severity; asperity; as the rigors of a cold winter.
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