All 5 Uses of
rigorous
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I had speedy proofs that the excellent abbe was engaged in my behalf, for the rigors of my imprisonment were alleviated by many trifling though acceptable indulgences, and I was told that my trial was to be postponed to the assizes following those now being held.†
Chpt 45-46rigors = difficulties (things that are difficult and demanding)
- The rigors which had attacked Barrois gradually increased, the features of the face became quite altered, and the convulsive movement of the muscles appeared to indicate the approach of a most serious nervous disorder.†
Chpt 79-80 *
- But bear in mind, that should there fall in your way any one guilty of conspiring against the government, you will be so much the more bound to visit the offence with rigorous punishment, as it is known you belong to a suspected family.†
Chpt 5-6
- "Oh, fear not," said Maximilian, stopping at a short distance, "I do not intend to render another man responsible for the rigorous fate reserved for me.†
Chpt 73-74 *
- Before daybreak he would awake, leave the inn after rigorously paying his bill, and reaching the forest, he would, under pretence of making studies in painting, test the hospitality of some peasants, procure himself the dress of a woodcutter and a hatchet, casting off the lion's skin to assume that of the woodman;†
Chpt 97-98
Definitions:
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(1)
(rigorous as in: we follow a rigorous procedure) thorough and careful procedures
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(2)
(rigorous as in: a rigorous math class) difficult and demanding
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(3)
(rigorous as in: rigorous enforcement) strict when enforcing rules