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Vigour vs Constitution - What's the difference?

vigour | constitution |

As a noun vigour

is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.

As a proper noun constitution is

the supreme law of some countries, such as australia, ireland, and the united states.

vigour

English

Alternative forms

* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)

Noun

  • Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
  • * (rfdate) :
  • The vigour of this arm was never vain.
  • (biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
  • A plant grows with vigour.
  • Strength; efficacy; potency.
  • * 1667 , :
  • But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.

    Usage notes

    Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

    Derived terms

    * envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigour

    constitution

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
  • * Sir J. Herschel
  • the physical constitution of the sun
  • The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
  • * Macaulay
  • Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions.
  • A legal document describing such a formal system.
  • The general health of a person.
  • A person's physique or temperament.
  • * Story
  • Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world.
  • * Clarendon
  • He defended himself with less passion than was expected from his constitution .

    Derived terms

    * constitutional * metaconstitution