Vigour vs False - What's the difference?
vigour | false |
Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
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(biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
* 1667 , :
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun vigour
is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.vigour
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Alternative forms
* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)Noun
- The vigour of this arm was never vain.
- A plant grows with vigour.
- 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 vigourfalse
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}