vigour

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman vigour, from Old French vigor (vigur, vigour), from Latin vigor, from vigeo (thrive, flourish).

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Singular
vigour

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural vigours

vigour (countable and uncountable; plural vigours)

  1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
  2. Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
  3. Strength; efficacy; potency.
    • But in the fruithful earth ... His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. John Milton.

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

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to vigour

Third person singular
vigours

Simple past
vigoured

Past participle
vigoured

Present participle
vigouring

to vigour (third-person singular simple present vigours, present participle vigouring, simple past and past participle vigoured)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (transitive, obsolete) To invigorate.