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Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Andre Weil

Meaning of "rigour" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RIGOUR

From Latin rigor.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RIGOUR

rigour  [ˈrɪɡə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RIGOUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rigour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RIGOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rigour

Rigour or rigor has a number of meanings in relation to intellectual life and discourse. These are separate from public and political applications with their suggestion of laws enforced to the letter, or political absolutism.

Definition of rigour in the English dictionary

The first definition of rigour in the dictionary is harsh but just treatment or action. Other definition of rigour is a severe or cruel circumstance; hardship. Rigour is also strictness, harshness, or severity of character.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RIGOUR


agar
ˈeɪɡə
bottega
bəˈteɪɡə
configure
ˌkənˈfɪɡə
figure
ˈfɪɡə
Frigga
ˈfrɪɡə
frigger
ˈfrɪɡə
Geiger
ˈɡaɪɡə
hair-trigger
ˌheəˈtrɪɡə
jaeger
ˈjeɪɡə
ligger
ˈlɪɡə
omega
ˈəʊmɪɡə
Ortega
ɔːˈteɪɡə
outrigger
ˈaʊtˌrɪɡə
prigger
ˈprɪɡə
rigger
ˈrɪɡə
sprigger
ˈsprɪɡə
thimblerigger
ˈθɪmbəlˌrɪɡə
tiger
ˈtaɪɡə
trigger
ˈtrɪɡə
vinegar
ˈvɪnɪɡə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RIGOUR

rigidity
rigidize
rigidly
rigidness
Rigil
Rigil Kent
rigmarole
rigol
rigor
rigor mortis
rigorism
rigorist
rigoristic
rigorous
rigorously
rigorousness
rigours
rigout
rigsdaler
rigwiddie

WORDS THAT END LIKE RIGOUR

amour
behaviour
clangour
colour
four
glamour
harbour
honour
hour
humour
hybrid vigour
in vigour
labour
our
pour
retour
sense of humour
tour
vigour
your

Synonyms and antonyms of rigour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «RIGOUR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rigour» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of rigour

Translation of «rigour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RIGOUR

Find out the translation of rigour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rigour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rigour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

艰辛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rigores
570 millions of speakers

English

rigour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कठोरता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصرامة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

строгость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rigores
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কাঠিন্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rigueur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rigor
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Strenge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

過酷さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고됨
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rigor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự cay nghiệt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடுமையில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कडकपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

titizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

difficoltà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rygor
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

строгість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rigoare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυστηρότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

strengheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stringens
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rigor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rigour

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RIGOUR»

The term «rigour» is regularly used and occupies the 71.477 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RIGOUR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rigour» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rigour» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rigour

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5 QUOTES WITH «RIGOUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rigour.
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Maurice Druon
Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
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Lionel Messi
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
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Jonathan Stroud
As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.
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Zoe Wanamaker
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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Andre Weil
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIGOUR»

Discover the use of rigour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rigour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rigour and Complexity in Educational Research
This book is important reading for academics, researchers and students undertaking education and social science courses.
Kincheloe, 2004
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Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination
In this book, to which the artist actively contributed right up to his death, every aspect of Man Ray's constantly self-renewing life and work is studied and and documented in depth.
Arturo Schwarz, Man Ray, 1977
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Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough ...
In telling his story, Masha Gessen has constructed a gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius.
Masha Gessen, 2011
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The Sphere of Rigour Reporting
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Communications - Journalism, Journalism Professions, grade: A+, University of Auckland, 48 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Professor's comment: "Well researched and ...
Victoria Tschirch, 2008
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Mathematics as an Educational Task
MATHEMATICAL RIGOUR Would it be believable that the logicians always proceeded from the general to the particular, as the rules of formal logic seemed to prescribe? By this way they would never have been able to extend the frontiers of ...
Hans Freudenthal, 1973
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Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
Cauchy's revolution of rigour rested on the heuristic innovation that the mathematician should not stop at the proof: he should go on and find out what he has proved by enumerating the exceptions, or rather by stating a safe domain where the ...
Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Elie Zahar, 1976
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Husserl, Heidegger and the Crisis of Philosophical ...
basis of such a notion of rigour. Certainly, philosophy too should proceed in such an orderly fashion. But Husserl has something more substantial in mind with the idea of rigour. Rigour for Husserl is not just a matter of proceeding, of making ...
R. Philip Buckley, 1992
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Palliative Nursing: Improving End-of-life Care
It should be quite evident that use of a systematic approach will help to produce a consistent approach based on centuries of inductive and deductive thought development. Rigour, on the other hand, demands that every facet of the research ...
Shaun Kinghorn, Sandra Gaines, 2007
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Managing Fraud Risk: A Practical Guide for Directors and ...
In terms of the rigour visits you need to get a high score . . . I forgot what it is exactly that the branch needs to get, but certainly it is way over 85% pass on a compliance visit to make sure that there is no come-back. Otherwise heads will roll big ...
Steve Giles, 2012
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Responsibility: The Many Faces of a Social Phenomenon
Asthesestudies cannotbe combined meaningfully, they will be omitted from all further analyses. Th eexten t ofa causal l ink andthe m e t hodologicalqua l ityof p u b l i c a t i o n s The overall methodological rigour of a study indicates the extent ...
Ann Elisabeth Auhagen, Hans-Werner Bierhoff, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIGOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rigour is used in the context of the following news items.
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Justin Trudeau's rigour problem
In the marvelously Churchillian put-down of one Liberal old-timer, “There is an evident absence of rigour …” Others say that won't matter, that the son shares an ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
2
AUDIO: 'Rigour': A Poem Digs Beneath 'Third World' Tropes in the …
... in question are children, are often recorded with indifference toward the human lives lost. Listen to Barokka read her poem “Rigour,” and follow along below. «Truthdig, Jul 15»
3
Concerns NHS England safe staffing guide for mental health 'lacks …
Experts have criticised NHS England's latest safe staffing guidance on mental health inpatient care, raising concerns that the model used 'lacks rigour'. «Health Service Journal, Jul 15»
4
'Rigour' mortis for Gove GCSEs?
Rigour” was Gove's watchword. More rigorous exams in English and Maths would be first examined in 2017. This meant teachers had to be ready to teach the ... «Schools Week, May 15»
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MFA Kicks off 2015 awards, promises to boost rigour
The MFA says it is boosting the rigour of its awards judging this year as it launches its call for entries 2015. MFA enlisted Seven TV's Sunrise host Andrew ... «AdNews, May 15»
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Top lawyer questions rigour of BoE report into forex scandal
Top lawyer questions rigour of BoE report into forex scandal. Caroline Binham, Financial Regulation Correspondent. Share. Print; Clip; Gift Article. Comments. «Financial Times, May 15»
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IMF's Lagarde stresses rigour for economic salvation, rules out fast fix
Here's a warning for the global economic outlook, issued by the International Monetary Fund: the US, UK and India cannot alone relaunch the world's economy ... «euronews, Apr 15»
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Architects bring 'intellectual rigour and sensual intuition' to design of …
VANCOUVER -- When the design for the new Vancouver Art Gallery is unveiled this spring, the city will be getting a building designed by Herzog & de Meuron, ... «Vancouver Sun, Mar 15»
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Canberra Hospital's plan to counter overcrowding lacking …
A plan to resolve overcrowding at the Canberra Hospital's emergency department has been slammed as lacking intellectual rigour and being dismissive of ... «The Canberra Times, Mar 15»
10
LGA moots compulsory peer challenges amid concerns about rigour
It added: “The fact that corporate peer challenge is voluntary is held up by many as an example of why sector-led improvement may lack sufficient rigour and ... «Local Government Chronicle, Jan 15»

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