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• n  the quality of being valid and rigorous
• n  something hard to endure
• n  excessive sternness

• Most Americans do not possess the fundamental rigour in their financial ability to make investments in a downturn.
• Said King James, speaking in the Star Chamber: "Where the rigour of the law in many cases will undo a subject, then the chancery tempers the law with equity, and so mixes mercy .
• So I started reading about filmmakers to nourish myself with their rhetoric, the rigour that they had.

• cogency
• validity
• rigor
• asperity
• grimness
• hardship
• severity
• severeness
• rigorousness
• rigourousness
• harshness
• inclemency
• hardness
• stiffness

News & Articles

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• Juliet Lamont Awarded the David and Joan Williams Fellowship
  ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - Jun 13, 2013) - Filmmaker Juliet Lamont was awarded the prestigious David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship last night at a film industry reception in Sydney, during the Sydney Film Festival. The Fellowship is awarded annually and is intended to reward creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation in documentary cinema.
  June 13, 2013 - Marketwire

Quotes

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• Muir Russell in Adelaidenow
  We find that their rigour and honesty as scientists are not in doubt,Mr Russell said. "But we do find that there has been a consistent pattern of failing to display the proper degree of openness."
• President Bush in Sydney Morning Herald
  He's earned a reputation for intellectual rigour and integrity,Mr Bush said in a brief White House appearance with Mr Bernanke. "He commands deep respect in the global financial community. And he'll be an outstanding chairman of the...