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rigorist|ˈrɪgərɪst|
Also rigourist.
[f. as prec. + -ist. Cf. F. rigoriste, Sp. rigorista.]
1. One who favours or insists upon the severest or strictest interpretation or enforcement of a law, precept, principle, or standard of any kind.
1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) II. p. xx, He had a strong aversion to rigorists of all sorts. 1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. ii. §8 Those deluded rigorists who..first laid them⁓selves under that idle obligation by a vow. 1804Edin. Rev. III. 405 The propositions may appear exceptionable..to the rigorists in geometry. 1823New Monthly Mag. VII. 33, I am apt to doubt the virtue of an obtrusive Puritan and rigourist. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 84 If they were rigorists in the minutiæ of Levitism instead of examples of ideal righteousness.
attrib.1876Plummer tr. Döllinger's Hippolytus & Callistus 237 Origen..shared the rigorist principles of Hippolytus. 1890[see laxist].
2. R.C. Theol. One who holds that in doubtful cases of conscience the strict course is always to be followed. Also attrib.
1715M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 65 Of the Popish Church-Rigorists and Laxarists. 1768A. Maclaine tr. Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) IV. 379 The Jansenists are not undeservedly branded by their adversaries with the denomination Rigourists. 1864Newman Apologia (1865) 276 A priest might write a treatise which was really lax on the subject of lying,..and yet in his own person be a rigorist. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 637/1 When such a text-book..comes to be ranked amongst rigorist works. |