Both Uses
rigorous
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The Black Cat
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- and proceeded again to make rigorous investigation of the premises.
*rigorous = thorough and careful
- The reader will remember that this mark, although large, had been originally very indefinite; but, by slow degrees—degrees nearly imperceptible, and which for a long time my Reason struggled to reject as fanciful—it had, at length, assumed a rigorous distinctness of outline.†
Definitions:
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(rigorous as in: we follow a rigorous procedure) thorough and careful procedures
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(rigorous as in: a rigorous math class) difficult and demanding
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(rigorous as in: rigorous enforcement) strict when enforcing rules
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)