vigour

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Etymology 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Usage notes 1.4.2 Derived terms 1.4.3 Related terms 1.5 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• (US) vigor

[edit] Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡə(r)

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Noun

vigour (countable and uncountable; plural vigours)

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

   • The vigor of this arm was never vain. John Dryden.

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.

[edit] Usage notes

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

[edit] Derived terms

• envigorate
• vigorous

[edit] Related terms

• vegetable
• vigil

[edit] Verb

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.