Word Meaning

Meaning of rigor

- Rigidity; stiffness.
- A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
- The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
- See 1st Rigor, 2.
- Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
- Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
- Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
- Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
- Violence; force; fury.

Crossword clue for rigor

- ... mortis
- Corpse rigidity, ... mortis
- Corpse stiffness, ... mortis
- rigidity
- Stiffness or rigidity