rigorist

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From rigour, or its source, Latin rigor, +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

Noun

rigorist (plural rigorists)

  1. Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 338:
      These rigorists wanted to borrow Old Testament exclusions from participation in the Temple liturgy and apply them to pregnant women and the sexual relations of married couples.

Adjective

rigorist (comparative more rigorist, superlative most rigorist)

  1. Of, pertaining to or in the fashion of rigorists or rigorism.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French rigoriste.

Noun

rigorist m (plural rigoriști)

  1. rigorist

Declension