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Definition of Rigorism
1. n. Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
2. n. Strictness in ethical principles; -- usually applied to ascetic ethics, and opposed to ethical latitudinarianism.
Definition of Rigorism
1. Noun. strictness (in interpreting or enforcing a rule) ¹
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Definition of Rigorism
1. strictness or severity in conduct or attitude [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rigorism
Literary usage of Rigorism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1894)
"Moderate rigorism is, one might say, the character- (B) Moder- istic Greek view
of the moral life; the Greek ideal is a ? ..."
2. The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry (1905)
"But as every special study tends to rely upon its own conceptions, pietism,
involving as it does a relation to God, is replaced by rigorism and intuitionism ..."
3. Ireland Past and Present by Augustus J. Thébaud, John Habberton (1878)
"... and remaining, after their conversion, exposed to seductions of such an alluring
character. side, a terrible rigorism, making life unsupportable, ..."
4. The Ethical Ideal of Renunciation by Cordie Jacob Culp (1914)
"... where self-realization through the aesthetical impulse was the ideal, or
rigorism, where the religious influence was paramount. ..."
5. Introduction to the Science of Ethics by Theodore de Leo De Laguna (1914)
"CHAPTER IX rigorism Democracy in Ethics. ... was essentially aristocratic, so
the democratic spirit is represented by the rigorism of the cynics and stoics. ..."
6. A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church by Henry Charles Lea (1896)
"... succeeded by an excess of rigor which drives men to desperation, and he says
that more excuse their evil lives through this rigorism than had formerly ..."
7. The Collected Works of George Moore by George Moore (1898)
"... the administration of the Saera- •eat — the early rigorism of the African
fathers, and the later ..."
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