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Rigidity; stiffness.

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  1. n. Rigidity; stiffness.
  2. n. A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
  3. n. The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
  4. n. See 1st Rigor, 2.
  5. n. Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
  6. n. Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
  7. n. Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
  8. n. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
  9. n. Violence; force; fury.
  10. n. something hard to endure
  11. n. the quality of being valid and rigorous
  12. n. excessive sternness