(n.) Rigidity; stiffness.
(n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a
convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
(n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid;
rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
(n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
(n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of
the storm; the rigors of winter.
(n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness;
relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
(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.
(n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain,
abstinence, or mortification.
(n.) Violence; force; fury.
