Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Harshness or strictness in conduct, judgment, or practice.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rigidity in principles or practice; exactingness; strictness; severity, as of style, conduct, etc.; especially, severity in the mode of life; austerity.
- noun In Roman Catholic theology, the doctrine that one must always in a case of doubt as to right and wrong take the safer way, sacrificing his freedom of choice, however small the doubt as to the morality of the action: the opposite of
probabilism . Alsotutiorism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to
laxity . - noun Severity, as of style, or the like.
- noun (Ethics) Strictness in ethical principles; -- usually applied to ascetic ethics, and opposed to ethical
latitudinarianism .
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- noun
strictness (in interpreting or enforcing a rule)
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Examples
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Raynal, the inhabitants still preserved a kind of rigorism that savours of the sombre days in which the Puritan colonies had their rise.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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Much as the categorical imperative is sometimes associated with a form of 'rigorism' connected with Kant's Prussian upbringing, it can hardly be said to tie down to agent to precise forms of action.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Much as the categorical imperative is sometimes associated with a form of 'rigorism' connected with Kant's Prussian upbringing, it can hardly be said to tie down to agent to precise forms of action.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Much as the categorical imperative is sometimes associated with a form of 'rigorism' connected with Kant's Prussian upbringing, it can hardly be said to tie down to agent to precise forms of action.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The frequent claim that Irish Catholicism was Jansenist‐influenced springs from the tendency to confuse Jansenism with mere moral rigorism.
The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum 2009
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Indeed, while its moral rigorism made it attractive to elements of the Counter‐Reformation church, Jansenism's theological and political radicalism alienated both local hierarchies and Catholic monarchs.
The Situation of the Classical Roman Rite in Ireland, two years after Summorum Pontificum 2009
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But on any authentically Catholic account, both (1) and (2) must be deemed false; the truth must lie somewhere in between, at a golden mean between rigorism and laxism.
Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007
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But on any authentically Catholic account, both (1) and (2) must be deemed false; the truth must lie somewhere in between, at a golden mean between rigorism and laxism.
Salvation at the golden mean Mike L 2007
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But as hard-hearted as it might seem to say so, such easy universalism finds no more warrant in the deposit of faith than the old rigorism.
Limbo: the issue that won't go away Mike L 2006
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But as hard-hearted as it might seem to say so, such easy universalism finds no more warrant in the deposit of faith than the old rigorism.
Archive 2006-10-01 Mike L 2006
qms commented on the word rigorism
A suspect avowal of stigmatism
Is tested with maximum rigorism.
Hysterical miracles
Imperil the clericals
And threaten to trigger a schism.
October 8, 2016