rigoristic
- 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
It is said that Kant is too rigoristic, that he makes too stern a business of morality, in speaking so much of law and so little of love and spontaneity.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
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 Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
With the troubadours, we may find traces of the hedonistic view of art, and the rigoristic hypothesis finds in Tertullian and in certain Fathers of the Church staunch upholders.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
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 Sumner, William Graham
