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Etymology edit

From rigour, or its source, Latin rigor, +‎ -ist.

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Noun edit

rigorist (plural rigorists)

  1. Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 338:
      These rigorists wanted to borrow Old Testament exclusions from participation in the Temple liturgy and apply them to pregnant women and the sexual relations of married couples.

Adjective edit

rigorist (comparative more rigorist, superlative most rigorist)

  1. Of, pertaining to or in the fashion of rigorists or rigorism.

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French rigoriste.

Noun edit

rigorist m (plural rigoriști)

  1. rigorist

Declension edit