rigorist

• rigourist

From rigour, or its source, Latin rigor, +‎ -ist.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɪɡəɹɪst/

rigorist (plural rigorists)

1. Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 338:

     These rigorists wanted to borrow Old Testament exclusions from participation in the Temple liturgy and apply them to pregnant women and the sexual relations of married couples.

rigorist (comparative more rigorist, superlative most rigorist)

1. Of, pertaining to or in the fashion of rigorists or rigorism.

Borrowed from French rigoriste.

rigorist m (plural rigoriști)

1. rigorist