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plural rigorists
Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc. quotations examples
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.
2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 338
comparative more rigorist, superlative most rigorist
Of, pertaining to or in the fashion of rigorists or rigorism. examples