Both Uses of
rigorous
in
Bleak House
- That any person or persons audaciously presuming to trespass on this property will be punished with the utmost severity of private chastisement and prosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- His mental sufferings are so great that he entertains wandering ideas of delivering himself up to justice and requiring to be cleared if innocent and punished with the utmost rigour of the law if guilty.†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(rigorous as in: we follow a rigorous procedure) thorough and careful procedures