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rigor

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"Strictness or severity"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹɪɡə/Part of speech nounSorted giorrStarts with REnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Strictness, severity, or careful exactness.

Word origin

From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”).

Used in a sentence

  • Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.

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