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VIGOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)
Example:
a remarkable muscularity of style
Synonyms:
energy; muscularity; vigor; vigour; vim
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vigour" is a kind of...):
life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vigour"):
verve; vitality (an energetic style)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Active strength of body or mind
Synonyms:
dynamism; heartiness; vigor; vigour
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vigour" is a kind of...):
strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Forceful exertion
Example:
he's full of zip
Synonyms:
energy; vigor; vigour; zip
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vigour" is a kind of...):
force; forcefulness; strength (physical energy or intensity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vigour"):
athleticism; strenuosity (intense energy)
Context examples:
The jaw, the chin, the brow rising to a goodly height and swelling heavily above the eyes,—these, while strong in themselves, unusually strong, seemed to speak an immense vigour or virility of spirit that lay behind and beyond and out of sight.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He was a very handsome man, of a commanding aspect, past the bloom, but not past the vigour of life; and with his eye still directed towards her, she saw him presently address Mr. Tilney in a familiar whisper.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Margaret returned, and the family were again all restored to each other, again quietly settled at the cottage; and if not pursuing their usual studies with quite so much vigour as when they first came to Barton, at least planning a vigorous prosecution of them in future.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
That the system of living contrived by me, was unreasonable and unjust; because it supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigour, which no man could be so foolish to hope, however extravagant he may be in his wishes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
So now we had a reversal of tactics, for it was Jim who went in to hit with all the vigour of his young strength and unimpaired energy, while it was the savage Berks who was paying his debt to Nature for the many injuries which he had done her.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She again put her short black pipe to her lips, and renewed her smoking with vigour.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I think the extremities require to be at peace before the stomach will conduct itself with vigour.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This young wolf had attained his full size; and, considering the weak and famished condition of the pack, he possessed more than the average vigour and spirit.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I hesitated before I answered, when Frankenstein, who had at first been silent, and indeed appeared hardly to have force enough to attend, now roused himself; his eyes sparkled, and his cheeks flushed with momentary vigour.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
My friend had listened with amused surprise to this long speech, which was poured forth with extraordinary vigour and earnestness, every point being driven home by the slapping of a brawny hand upon the speaker’s knee.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
