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.