Both Uses of
rigorous
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "Well, I mean to my face, as you do," she went on, allowing herself to be further lured into a conversation that intention had rigorously forbidden.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- In Bathsheba's heated fancy the innocent white countenance expressed a dim triumphant consciousness of the pain she was retaliating for her pain with all the merciless rigour of the Mosaic law: "Burning for burning; wound for wound: strife for strife."†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(rigorous as in: we follow a rigorous procedure) thorough and careful procedures