All 5 Uses of
vigor
in
The Idiot
- The same decision and firmness was to be observed in her face as in her mother's, but her strength seemed to be more vigorous than that of Nina Alexandrovna.†
Chpt 1.8 *vigorous = with strength or energy
- He remembered that during his epileptic fits, or rather immediately preceding them, he had always experienced a moment or two when his whole heart, and mind, and body seemed to wake up to vigour and light; when he became filled with joy and hope, and all his anxieties seemed to be swept away for ever; these moments were but presentiments, as it were, of the one final second (it was never more than a second) in which the fit came upon him.†
Chpt 2.5
- Here was I, with my days numbered, and he, a man in the full vigour of life, living in the present, without the slightest thought for 'final convictions,' or numbers, or days, or, in fact, for anything but that which-which—well, which he was mad about, if he will excuse me the expression—as a feeble author who cannot express his ideas properly.†
Chpt 3.6
- Well, I can understand that if I were to make an attempt upon my own life while in the enjoyment of full health and vigour—my life which might have been 'useful,' etc., etc.—morality might reproach me, according to the old routine, for disposing of my life without permission—or whatever its tenet may be.†
Chpt 3.7
- The undoubtedly astonished, but now more collected, General Epanchin had several times endeavoured to interrupt the prince, and not having succeeded he was now preparing to take firmer and more vigorous measures to attain his end.†
Chpt 4.7vigorous = with strength or energy
Definition:
strength, energy, or good health