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1 —as in:
we follow a rigorous procedure

Definition

thorough and careful procedures

She followed the procedures rigorously.

rigorously = thoroughly and carefully

Other Uses (with this meaning)

rigorous logic
He said I'd been educated according to a rigorous program designed by my mother, who'd made sure I met all the requirements to graduate.
Tara Westover -- Educated

rigorous = with thorough and careful procedures

My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to bed, and many such details.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

rigorously = strictly

We all submitted to a rigorous search.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

rigorous = thorough and careful

and proceeded again to make rigorous investigation of the premises.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat

rigorous = thorough and careful

Had all regrets been punished as rigorously as...
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Celestial Railroad

rigorously = thoroughly

Everything speaks of a hasty departure or a rigorous search or both.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
By itself, the regimen proposed here, when followed rigorously, can purify the foulest breath.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

rigorously = thoroughly and carefully

Unsatisfied, he punched in the CHECKLIM program, a more rigorous testing of the circuit banks.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

rigorous = thorough and careful

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2 —as in:
a rigorous math class

Definition

difficult and demanding

The class was equally interesting and rigorous.

rigorous = difficult and demanding

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Navy SEALs go through an incredibly rigorous qualification and training program.

rigorous = difficult and demanding

He measured himself and those around him by an impossibly rigorous moral code.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

rigorous = difficult and demanding

Only one of us here today has ever undergone the rigorous training required of a Receiver.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

rigorous = difficult and demanding

While most other recruits—that's what they called us; we had to earn the title "marine" by completing the rigors of boot camp—received a letter every day or two, I sometimes received a half dozen each night.
J.D. Vance -- Hillbilly Elegy

rigors = difficulties (things that are difficult and demanding)

It was his custom, too, as it has been that of many other pious Puritans, to fast—not however, like them, in order to purify the body, and render it the fitter medium of celestial illumination—but rigorously, and until his knees trembled beneath him, as an act of penance.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

rigorously = in a manner that is difficult and demanding

He read rigorously for several days, caught a few small errors, and penciled in supporting facts, especially about his evolved musical tastes.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

rigorously = with energetic effort (in a difficult and demanding manner)

...the moose appeared in greater abundance, moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and less rigorous valleys.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

rigorous = difficult and demanding

...she would have no idea of the rigors of running a hospital in Africa.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions

rigors = difficulties (things that are difficult and demanding)

They would be tough, hardy bugs, able to withstand the rigors of space, and they would grow and duplicate and divide.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

rigors = difficulties (things that are difficult and demanding)

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3 —as in:
rigorous enforcement

Definition

strict when enforcing rules

She supports a rigorous application of the law.

rigorous = strict when enforcing rules

Other Uses (with this meaning)

rigorous discipline
In college McCandless began emulating Tolstoy's asceticism and moral rigor to a degree that first astonished, and then alarmed, those who were close to him.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

rigor = strictness (when enforcing rules)

For a very long period before the time of Our Ford, and even for some generations afterwards, erotic play between children had been regarded as abnormal (there was a roar of laughter); and not only abnormal, actually immoral (no!): and had therefore been rigorously suppressed.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

rigorously = strictly

the rigour of severest law
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet

rigour = strict enforcement

(editor's note: This is a British spelling. Americans use rigor.)

His stern measures as Director were given an odd legitimacy by his personal life, the rigor of his insistent celibacy.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld

rigor = strictness (when enforcing rules)

Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,
William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors

rigorous = strict

The evidence shows that he had been exceptionally dedicated, and it is precisely that rigorous and unbending attitude of spirit—the concept of duty and obedience above all which dwells unshakably in the mind of every good soldier—that gives his memoirs a desolating convincingness.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice

rigorous = strict when enforcing rules

Among other things, he was rigorously conventional and had quickly accommodated himself to McGraw-Hill's tidy, colorless and archconservative mold.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.
Wells, H.G. -- The Time Machine

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