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countable and uncountable, plural rigors
US spelling of rigour examples
(medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature. examples
(physiology, informal) Short for rigor mortis. quotations
Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.
2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3