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Rigorist vs Taxonomy - What's the difference?

rigorist | taxonomy |

As nouns the difference between rigorist and taxonomy

is that rigorist is someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc while taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

rigorist

English

Alternative forms

* rigourist

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.

    • taxonomy

    English

    (wikipedia taxonomy)

    Noun

    (taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology