rigoristic

Any more rigoristic law would never have been received, because tournaments served two important needs.

The rigoristic party wished to fill the vacancy with one of their own followers.

Lay people were at first permitted to eat fish on other days too until the monastic rigoristic influence prevailed.

The religious world of Carthage divided itself broadly into two sections, the moderate and rigoristic parties, or the supporters and opponents of the principles of Caecilianus.

The rigoristic party appealed to the justice of the emperor, and courted full inquiry to be conducted in Gaul - at a distance from the spot where passions and convictions were so strong and one-sided.

Thus Moore's position on the rightness and wrongness of actions is a form of rigoristic utilitarianism in which effects in terms of intrinsic good and bad replace effects in terms of pleasure and pain.

Lanteri subsequently promoted Liguorian moral theology, which is based on mercy and hope in contrast with a condemning and rigoristic Jansenism, both personally as he counseled people and young priests and institutionally through various publications.

Her nursing activity would be right on our first less rigoristic formulation of the Benthamite view, for it does good by way of lessening pain and promoting pleasure and either does no harm at all, or none that is significant.

This commentary is an attack upon the rigoristic interpretation of the rule by Abbot Rancé of La Trappe, and was forbidden in 1689 by a chapter of the Maurist superiors at the instance of Bossuet.

Because of the stress they laid on the rigoristic element in Augustine's doctrine on grace, they were for a time suspected of Baianism and Jansenism; but were cleared of this suspicion by Pope Benedict XIV.

"Raised in a less rigoristic household than he, she was prepared to take her children for what they were, make allowances for their fallen natures, and generally overlook their innocent iniquities" E.J. Pratt's brother, Calvert Pratt, became a Canadian Senator.

The doctrine of the just price and the rigoristic condemnation of usury were employed to police the marketplace, and the accent upon brotherhood among the citizens of the republic served as the foundation for the building of a social corporatism that weakened the unregulated and grasping hands of the rich, both old and new.