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    RIGOUR

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Excessive sternnessplay

    Example:

    the rigors of boot camp

    Synonyms:

    hardness; harshness; inclemency; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity; stiffness

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("rigour" is a kind of...):

    sternness; strictness (uncompromising resolution)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Something hard to endureplay

    Example:

    the asperity of northern winters

    Synonyms:

    asperity; grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("rigour" is a kind of...):

    difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rigour"):

    sternness (the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    The quality of being valid and rigorousplay

    Synonyms:

    cogency; rigor; rigour; validity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("rigour" is a kind of...):

    believability; credibility; credibleness (the quality of being believable or trustworthy)

     II. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb rigour

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