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Example sentences for "rigor"

Lexicographically close words:
rigimint; riginal; riglar; rigmarole; rigny; rigord; rigorism; rigorist; rigoristic; rigorous
  1. The rigor mortis is persistent for some time: in the case of Cook, poisoned by Palmer, the rigidity of the body and limbs was said not to have passed off after two months' interment.

  2. In more countries than one, the rigor of custom confiscates the property of a man who has voluntarily released himself from the miseries of this life, and his children are reduced to beggary because their father is dead.

  3. So here now she sat, painting with rigor and immense satisfaction the picturesque rags and tinsel ornaments of the Tetongs.

  4. The Egyptians, then, recognized this fundamental law--that man should live by the fruit of his labor, and we see with what rigor they enforced it.

  5. There is probably an allusion here to the large sums which Seneca had out at interest in Britain, where his rigor in exacting his demands occasioned a rebellion.

  6. If rigor mortis has set in and an effort to straighten the fingers as previously explained fails, the difficulty can be overcome easily.

  7. All Masters of vessels and others are hereby cautioned against carrying said Negro out of the State, as they will, on conviction, be prosecuted to the utmost rigor of the law.

  8. All masters of vessels are forewarned from carrying him off the State as they will be prosecuted to the utmost rigor of the law.

  9. A frontier town at the head of the colony, it was the natural resort of desperadoes of every description, offering a singular contrast between the rigor of its clerical seigniors and the riotous license of the wild crews which invaded it.

  10. At this point is revealed a progress in ideas of humanity and justice: the edict of 1724 equalled in rigor the most severe proclamations of Louis XIV.

  11. All this rigor was ineffectual; the useful object of Paris-Duverney's decrees was not attained.

  12. The rigor of procedure, as well as the insufficiency of resources, caused the failure of the philanthropic project.

  13. The tumult of agitation into which she was thrown, dreadful as it was, relaxed not the stern rigor of the law.

  14. When the reaction awakened by these horrors commenced in the public mind, the rigor of her captivity was somewhat abated.

  15. The palace was now guarded, by command of the Assembly, with a degree of rigor unknown before.

  16. He had wanted to make an example for the benefit of the criminals who swarmed to the town, and now welcomed the chance to put the law's rigor on the men that had tried to assassinate his favorite operator.

  17. There were still among them a few cool-headed criminals who counselled caution, but these were hooted down by men who had never tasted the rigor of vigilante rule.

  18. None the less does it retain its character of rigor absolute; this is the first thing that had to be shown.

  19. It may be said that to-day absolute rigor is attained.

  20. But do you think mathematics has attained absolute rigor without making any sacrifice?

  21. It seems there can not be two rigors, that rigor is or is not, and that, where it is not there can not be deduction.

  22. It will awaken new doubts, and the questions will arise successively to the child, as they arose successively to our fathers, until perfect rigor alone can satisfy him.

  23. In mathematics rigor is not everything, but without it there is nothing.

  24. It is approximately true that the motion of the pendulum is due solely to the earth's attraction; but in all rigor every attraction, even of Sirius, acts on the pendulum.

  25. We have not been slow to perceive that rigor could not be established in the reasonings, if it were not first put into the definitions.

  26. If this science is deductive only in appearance, whence does it derive that perfect rigor no one dreams of doubting?

  27. It was not slow in being noticed that rigor could not be introduced in the reasoning unless first made to enter into the definitions.

  28. If you do not do it, the logicians might say, you will achieve rigor only by stages.

  29. No doubt the difference is very slight and, in practise, I shall take no account of it; but a properly constructed definition should have mathematical rigor; this rigor is lacking.

  30. This ideal can not be reached, but it is enough to have conceived it and so to have put rigor into the definition of the unit of time.

  31. A distinct rigor or shivering fit then takes place, accompanied by pain in the back or in the stomach, with sickness, giddiness, or headach; as also great drowsiness.

  32. Now farewell to the hand whose rigor I preferred to every fortune and honor.

  33. Necker was always quite frank and outspoken, often showing a cutting harshness and a rigor which, as was said, was little in harmony with her bare neck and arms--a style then in vogue at court.

  34. Cases of relapse, however, were to be treated with all the rigor of the law.

  35. This rigor at last caused violent dissensions, and in 1490 the Synod of Brandeis relaxed the rules.

  36. Those who would humbly return to the Church would be received to mercy, while the obdurate would be made to experience the full rigor of the canons.

  37. Full records were to be kept of each case, and any withholding of the truth or subsequent relapse was to expose the delinquent to the full rigor of the law.

  38. Those of Moldavia and Poland, whither he despatched three of his associate inquisitors under Ladislas the Hungarian, probably felt the full rigor of the canons.

  39. It is a case of very great importaunce, and which ought to be followed with all rigor and cruelty.

  40. I woulde to God shee sawe the bottome of my heart, and viewed the Closet of my mynde, that shee might iudge of my firme fayth and know the wrong she doth me by hir rigor and froward will.

  41. No hardned rigor is our guide, Nor folly doth vs lead: No Fortune can vs twayne deuide, Vntill we both be deade.

  42. The next century undertook to bring order into the concepts, consistency into the doctrine, and rigor into the reasoning.

  43. And with such rules of conduct I shall stimulate my soldiers, not treating them with rigor and myself with indulgence, nor making their toils my glory.

  44. Your Prerogative is best shewed, and exercised in remitting, rather then exacting the rigor of the Laws, there being nothing worse, then legal tyrannie.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rigor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abstinence; accuracy; acerbity; acidity; acridity; acrimony; affliction; aggravation; animality; annoyance; asperity; astringency; atrocity; austerity; barbarity; bite; bitterness; blight; brutality; bummer; care; chill; circumstantiality; coldness; complexity; complication; cool; cross; curse; delicacy; detail; difficulties; difficulty; distress; edge; exactness; extremity; fasting; fidelity; flagellation; force; grievance; grip; hairiness; hardness; hardship; harshness; inclemency; inflexibility; inhumanity; intensity; intricacy; irritation; keenness; monasticism; mortification; nicety; nip; obstinacy; orthodoxy; particularity; perfection; plight; poignancy; point; precision; predicament; pressure; punctuality; refinement; relentlessness; right; rightness; rigidity; rigor; roughness; savagery; severity; sharpness; stiffness; sting; stress; strictness; stringency; stubbornness; subtlety; teeth; tension; terrorism; tightness; toughness; trial; tribulation; trouble; vandalism; vehemence; venom; vicissitude; violence; virulence