The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to
move. --Milton.
3. Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor
of the storm; the rigors of winter.
4. Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness;
hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
All his rigor is turned to grief and pity. --Denham.
If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, . . . I tell
you 'T is rigor and not law. --Shak.
5. 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}.
6. Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain,
abstinence, or mortification.
The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor
and austerity of a capuchin. --Addison.
7. Violence; force; fury. [Obs.]
Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could
stay. --Spenser.
Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity;
austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.