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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.

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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 Hudson, Henry Norman

The passage from Blewitt is not, of itself, manifestly rigoristic, while the position attributed to Mandeville is rigorism at its most extreme.

From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob

The first, which we shall call rigoristic or ascetic, appears several times, although not frequently, in the history of ideas.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

On the whole these Molinists endorse the third and mildest of the above-quoted opinions, which differs only theoretically from the rigoristic view described in the first place.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur