1Extreme strictness in interpreting or enforcing a law or principle.
(解释或执行法律、训令或原则时的)严格;严厉;死板
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He worked with rigorism accentuated by simple form and minimalist details.
It is self-scourging rigorism of an extreme kind.
1.1The Roman Catholic doctrine that in doubtful cases of conscience the strict course is always to be followed.
(罗马天主教的)严格主义
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Nevertheless the rigorism of his ascetic resolve was never relaxed.
A ‘dubious rigorism’ led some in the early church to condemn recourse to secular therapies, and monastic communities at times have used only prayer and other spiritual remedies to treat bodily illness.
By contrast, the sort of Church that Montanus offered was one of ecstatic prophecy, immediate eschatology, ascetic moral rigorism, and, at the same time, institutional chaos.
Derivatives
rigorist
adjective & noun
We refer to John's particular evaluation because the church later on did not follow the rigorist position of John on these matters.
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His theology and his disciplines were rigorist, but he as a man who lived them himself with great commitment and dedication.
Against the rigorists, I am inclined to agree with Cardinal Ratzinger that a measure of flexibility and openness is in order.
Various groups of rigorists (usually termed Spirituals) began openly to accuse their opponents of laxity in the observance of poverty and even to disobey their superiors.
Definition of rigorism in US English:
rigorism
nounˈriɡəˌrizəm
1Extreme strictness in interpreting or enforcing a law, precept, or principle.
(解释或执行法律、训令或原则时的)严格;严厉;死板
Example sentencesExamples
He worked with rigorism accentuated by simple form and minimalist details.
It is self-scourging rigorism of an extreme kind.
1.1(in the Roman Catholic Church) formerly, the doctrine that in doubtful cases of conscience the strict course is always to be followed.
(罗马天主教的)严格主义
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A ‘dubious rigorism’ led some in the early church to condemn recourse to secular therapies, and monastic communities at times have used only prayer and other spiritual remedies to treat bodily illness.
By contrast, the sort of Church that Montanus offered was one of ecstatic prophecy, immediate eschatology, ascetic moral rigorism, and, at the same time, institutional chaos.
Nevertheless the rigorism of his ascetic resolve was never relaxed.