rigorist
- a word derived from rigorism.
Example Sentences
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Constant, 54, is a rigorist whose every action accords with Vodou knowledge and cosmology.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
For centuries Muslim theologians have blended the rigorist teachings of sharia with the insights of mysticism to allow the spirit, rather than the letter, of the law to shine.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2015
Tertullian was a rigorist and extremist, whose utterances do not represent fact.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham
Recently, the Jesuit Father Castelein597 impugned the rigorist theory with weighty arguments.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
Mandeville professes also the extreme rigorist doctrine that whatever is not virtue is vice: in Augustinian terms, aut caritas aut cupiditas.
From A Letter to Dion by Viner, Jacob
