rigorism
noun
extreme strictness.
rigoristic
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a word derived from
rigorism.
Example Sentences
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Lepp concludes that the church, even while holding fast to its belief in the sanctity of marriage, ought to be less rigoristic about divorced Catholics who wed a second time.
From Time Magazine Archive
The particular application of this rigoristic treatment to my own little account of truth as working seems to be something like what follows.
From Meaning of Truth by William James
The Essenes of the last century before Christ were an ascetic community with puritan and rigoristic tenets and practices.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
Nor is the conjecture of Ulrici and others without weight, "that Shakespeare was led to the composition of the play by the rigoristic sentiments and arrogant virtue of the Puritans."
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
It amounted to genius, yet a rigoristic spirit led him to fall off to a sect.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
