vigour
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeo (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European [Term?].
Related to vigil.
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Noun[edit]
vigour (countable and uncountable, plural vigours)
- Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
- 1717, John Dryden (tr.), Metamorphoses By Ovid[1], Book the Twelfth:
- The vigour of this arm was never vain
- (biology) Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
- Strength; efficacy; potency.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
Usage notes[edit]
Vigour 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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Translations[edit]
active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy
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strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor
strength; efficacy; potency
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Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
vigour m (oblique plural vigours, nominative singular vigours, nominative plural vigour)
- Alternative form of vigur
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