Rigor

Noun

 * 1)  an abbreviated form of rigor mortis.
 * 2) * 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3
 * Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.
 * Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.

Adjectives for Rigor
utmost; merciless; logical; decisive; religious; protracted; grizzly; coveted; unsparing; remorseless; pedantic.

Thesaurus
Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, absolute zero, absoluteness, abstinence, abstruseness, accuracy, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, algidity, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, animality, annoyance, arduousness, asceticism, asperity, astringency, atrocity, attention to detail, attention to fact, austerity, barbarity, bite, bitterness, bleakness, blight, bloodlust, bothersomeness, briskness, brutality, bummer, burdensomeness, care, care for truth, causticity, chill, chilliness, circumstantiality, cold, coldness, complexity, complication, conscientiousness, cool, coolness, coolth, correctness, crispness, criticality, criticalness, cross, cryogenics, cryology, curse, decrease in temperature, delicacy, destructiveness, detail, difficulties, difficultness, difficulty, downer, edge, eremitism, exactingness, exactitude, exactness, exquisiteness, extremity, faithfulness, fasting, faultlessness, ferociousness, fidelity, fierceness, fineness, finicality, finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, firmness, flagellation, flawlessness, force, freezing point, freshness, frigidity, frostiness, fundamentalism, furiousness, fussiness, gelidity, grip, hairiness, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness, hardship, harshness, iciness, impetuosity, impliability, inclemency, inexorability, inflexibility, inhospitableness, inhumanity, intense cold, intensity, intricacy, irritation, keenness, laboriousness, literalism, literality, literalness, low temperature, maceration, malignity, mathematical precision, mendicantism, mercilessness, meticulousness, mindlessness, minuteness, monachism, monasticism, mordacity, mordancy, mortification, murderousness, niceness, nicety, nip, nippiness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, onerousness, oppressiveness, orthodoxy, particularity, particularness, perfection, pitilessness, plight, poignancy, point, preciseness, precisianism, precision, predicament, pressure, punctilio, punctiliousness, punctuality, purism, puritanism, rawness, refinement, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, right, rightness, rigidity, rigidness, rigorism, rigorousness, roughness, ruggedness, savagery, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, sea of troubles, self-denial, self-mortification, severity, sharp air, sharpness, starchiness, sternness, stiffness, sting, strenuousness, stress, stress of life, strictness, stridency, stringency, stubbornness, subtlety, tartness, tautness, teeth, tenseness, tension, tensity, terrorism, textualism, the letter, tightness, toilsomeness, toughness, trenchancy, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, troublesomeness, unbendingness, uncompromisingness, ungentleness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vale of tears, vandalism, vehemence, venom, viciousness, vicissitude, violence, virulence, visitation, voluntary poverty

Etymology
From, from rigor: < rigere:.

Noun

 * 1) stiffness, rigidness
 * 2) rigor, cold, harshness, severity

Etymology
From rigeo:.

Derived terms

 * rigōrātus

Related terms

 * rigefaciō
 * rigēns
 * rigeō
 * rigēscō


 * rigidē
 * rigiditās
 * rigidō

Descendants

 * English:, rigour
 * French: rigueur
 * Italian: rigore


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Noun

 * 1) rigour

Noun

 * 1) rigour

Etymology
From rigor:, rigoris.