Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rigorous manner.
- Severely; without relaxation, mitigation, or abatement; relentlessly; inexorably; mercilessly: as, a sentence rigorously executed.
- Strictly; severely; exactly; precisely; with scrupulous nicety.
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- adverb In a rigorous manner.
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- adverb in a rigorous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Dutch and Italian schools are the two most original, or, as has been said, the only two to which the title rigorously belongs; the others being only daughters, or younger sisters, more or less resembling them.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Various 1885
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Finally, he had just signed the entire emancipation of the national soil four years before the term rigorously prescribed by treaties.
Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 John William Cole 1830
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They must train rigorously to get significantly stronger.
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No man doubted that General — would keep his word rigorously whenever severity was required, and
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Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these.
Archive 2006-02-01 KaneCitizen 2006
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Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these.
Could I Please Have a Kaffiyeh and a Danish KaneCitizen 2006
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And the cost of tagging large systems rigorously is crippling, so fantasies of using controlled metadata in environments like Flickr are really fantasies of users suddenly deciding to become disciples of information architecture.
Boing Boing: January 2, 2005 - January 8, 2005 Archives 2005
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"Godfather II"; spoke only eight words in English, rigorously researching and learning the Sicilian dialect which predominates
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In particular, it will be to him a matter of concern that the law shall be established upon classifications which are just (in the sense of being conformable to public advantage); and that the laws shall everywhere be justly, that is to say rigorously and impartially, administered.
The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage Almroth Wright 1904
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So firmly establishes a tone at the start that he maintains throughout, and it might be described as rigorously bemused.
f i l m j o u r n e y . o r g Robert Koehler 2010
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