vigor
[vig-er]
- active strength or force.
- healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality.
- energetic activity; energy; intensity: The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor.
- force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant.
- active or effective force, especially legal validity.
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Also especially British, vig·our.
Origin of vigor
1300–50; Middle English vigo(u)r < Anglo-French; Middle French vigeur < Latin vigor force, energy, equivalent to vig(ēre) to be vigorous, thrive + -or -or1
Synonyms
See more synonyms for vigor on Thesaurus.com2. drive, force, strength.
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Examples from the Web for vigor
Contemporary Examples
She speaks with vigor about her projects, pointing out her favorite pieces in the museum and library.
Brooklyn’s Museum of Death: Inside Morbid Anatomy’s House of Intriguing HorrorsNina Strochlic
July 10, 2014
It condenses pain into tiny joke pellets, like a mass-immunization that builds tolerance and vigor.
Like John Kennedy in 1960, he combined youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change.
His 1965 book, A Thousand Days, retains its vigor, and has never been excelled as a study of those years.
It would seem that for all of its ostensible lack of vim and vigor, Israel Media Watch is a very effective organization.
Historical Examples
And must not the vigor, from what we have seen, have been intensified in Plautus?
The Dramatic Values in PlautusWilton Wallace Blancke
There was apparent sinewy strength and vigor in the small form.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
Dick felt that he must do as well, and the feeling increased his vigor and courage.
The Rock of ChickamaugaJoseph A. Altsheler
He is still in the vigor of life going on as usual with his contracts.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
At the first sign of it he was admonished with a vigor to deter his comrades.
Word Origin and History for vigor
n.
c.1300, from Anglo-French vigour, Old French vigor, from Latin vigorem (nominative vigor) "liveliness, activity, force," from vigere "be lively, flourish, thrive," from PIE *wog-/*weg- "be lively or active" (see vigil).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with vigor
vigor
see vim and vigor.
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The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary
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