Rigourist vs Rigorist - What's the difference?
rigourist | rigorist | Alternative forms |
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.