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rigour

noun
/ˈɹɪɡə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From Middle English rigour, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French rigor, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”). Compare French rigueur.

  1. derived from rigor
  2. derived from rigor
  3. inherited from rigour

Definitions

  1. Severity or strictness.

  2. Harshness, as of climate.

  3. A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Character of being unyielding or inflexible.

    2. Shrewd questioning.

    3. Higher level of difficulty.

    4. Misspelling of rigor (“rigor mortis”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at rigour. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at rigour. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at rigour

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA