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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RIG'OROUSNESS, n.
1. Severity without relaxation or mitigation; exactness.
2. Severity

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]
2: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see rigorous

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rigorous Rig"or*ous, a. [F. rigoureux, LL. rigorosus. See Rigor.] 1. Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands. --Shak. We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity. --De Quincey. 2. Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter. 3. Violent. [Obs.] ``Rigorous uproar.'' --Spenser. Syn: Rigid; inflexible; unyielding; stiff; severe; austere; stern; harsh; strict; exact. -- Rig"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Rig"or*ous*ness, n.