单词 | rigorist |
释义 | rigoristn.adj. A. n. A person who supports the strictest interpretation or enforcement of any law, precept, etc.; (Roman Catholic Church) one who supports the doctrine that in doubtful cases of conscience the strict course is always to be followed. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc. > strict or rigorous conformity > one who rigorist1715 precisian1755 strictarian1867 proceduralist1934 society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > branches of theology > [noun] > moral theology > rigorist > adherent of rigorist1715 1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ Pref. 65 Of the Popish Church-Rigorists and Laxarists. 1729 B. Mandeville Fable Bees ii. Pref. p. xxi He had a strong Aversion to Rigorists of all sorts. 1768 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (ed. 2) IV. 379 The Jansenists are not undeservedly branded by their adversaries with the denomination Rigourists. 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. ii. §8 Those deluded rigorists who..first laid themselves under that idle obligation by a vow. 1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 405 The propositions may appear exceptionable..to the rigorists in geometry. 1864 J. H. Newman 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. 1923 E. A. Ross Russ. Soviet Republic x. 119 None do so much harm as rigorists like the American Abolitionists and the Russian Communists, who apply moral principles so relentlessly as to drive privileged social classes to the resistance of despair. 1966 Math. Gaz. 50 7 They are repelled by the inversion of the natural order of presentation, and resist the process of conditioning which is attempted by the rigorists. How many potential mathematicians do we lose by this practice. 1991 Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encycl. 685/1 Novatian..was a rigorist and the author of what has come to be called the Novatian heresy and schism. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a rigorist; rigoristic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > conforming > strictly sternc1374 precise1526 severe1565 precisianc1610 strictc1660 rigorist1844 1844 W. K. Kelly tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Popes 101/1 The rigorist party, that had long looked on with displeasure at the doings of the pope's nephew, now raised their heads. 1876 A. Plummer tr. J. J. I. von Döllinger Hippolytus & Callistus 237 Origen..shared the rigorist principles of Hippolytus. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 637/1 When such a text-book..comes to be ranked amongst rigorist works. 1890 Guardian 7 May 741/1 There have been ‘rigorist’ and ‘laxist’ views on points of morals and discipline. 1938 Times 1 Jan. 36/1 The rigourist view, withholding Holy Communion in all circumstances from any person remarried after divorce, was defeated. 1988 T. L. S. Sprigge Rational Found. Ethics (1990) i. 13 Some contemporary utilitarians adopt a highly rigorist outlook (arguing, for example, that not to have done all one personally might to feed the starving in far off places is as bad as murder). 2000 J. Crichton in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 528/1 Tertullian..even more rigorist in his Montanist period, denied the church's authority to forgive great sins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1715 |
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