rigorist
- noun
- /ˈrɪɡərɪst/
- Formal
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rigorista
- The school's rigorist approach to education meant that students had to adhere strictly to the rules.
Examples
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The Puritan hardliners lose, but the "lenient" winners bequeath to posterity a daunting severity; indeed, they initiate a rigorist succession.
Academic text (1993) -
In either case, the penitentials, crude instruments crafted by a crude age, belong to the rigorist succession, receiving it from the earliest centuries and mediating it to the following period when the Summae confessorum flourish.
Academic text (1993) -
More importantly, he was trying to establish a relationship between the root cause of the anti-reformers' resistance to the Fourth Lateran Council and the motivations of his own overzealous friars who had adopted a rigorist and merciless understanding of the Franciscan Rule.
Academic text (2002) -
As a rigorist, she believed in following every rule laid out by her faith without exception.
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Many consider him a rigorist because he refuses to compromise his ethical principles under any circumstances.
Synonyms
3
7.0
A person who insists others follow strict rules about right and wrong
2
9.4
A person who insists that others follow rules exactly
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4.8
A person who always obeys instructions and people in charge
1
7.5
A person who follows laws and rules very strictly
A person who follows religious ceremonies exactly and insists others do too
Antonyms
How Strict
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rigorist comes from the root rigor meaning 'stiff' or 'strict' plus the ending -ist meaning 'person who'. So, a rigorist is a person who follows rules or principles very strictly and allows little change.