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.