1. Dureté. Les rigueurs du climat.
2. Sévérité. La rigueur de la loi.
3. Exigence. La rigueur d'un raisonnement.
(Alternate spelling: rigour)
(Homonym: rigger)
1. Rigidity; stiffness.
2. A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceeding a fever.
Shiver; chill; rigidity; abbreviation of rigor mortis.
Medical term for shivering or rigidity. Rigor mortis is the stiffness that ensues in a corpse soon after death, owing to chemical changes in muscle tissue.
Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for rigor.
ETYM Latin severitas: cf. French sévérité.
Excessive sternness; SYN. harshness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness.