different between rigorism vs rigorist

English

Alternative forms

• rigourism

Etymology

rigor +? -ism

Noun

rigorism (countable and uncountable, plural rigorisms)

1. strictness (in interpreting or enforcing a rule) (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (Christianity, theology) In Roman Catholic moral theology, the doctrine that in a case of doubt between right and wrong one should take the safer course, i.e. the one in verbal accordance with the law.

   Synonym: tutorism

   Antonym: probabilism

Romanian

Etymology

From French rigorisme

Noun

rigorism n (uncountable)

1. rigorism

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• rigourist

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???????st/

Noun

rigorist (plural rigorists)

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

Adjective

rigorist (comparative more rigorist, superlative most rigorist)

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French rigoriste.

Noun

rigorist m (plural rigori?ti)

1. rigorist

Declension