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rigidly

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rig·id  (rjd)
adj.
1. Not flexible or pliant; stiff.
2. Not moving; fixed.
3. Marked by a lack of flexibility; rigorous and exacting: "We have watered down a rigid training . . . until we now have an educational diet in many of our public high schools that nourishes neither the classes nor the masses" (Agnes Meyer).
4. Scrupulously maintained or performed: rigid discipline. See Synonyms at stiff.

[Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus, from rigre, to be stiff; see reig- in Indo-European roots.]

rigid·ly adv.
rigid·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.rigidly - in a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright"
Translations
rigidly [ˈrɪdʒɪdlɪ] ADV
1. (= stiffly) → rígidamente
2. (= strictly) → estrictamente
3. (= inflexibly) → con inflexibilidad, con intransigencia
he is rigidly opposed to itestá totalmente en contra de esto
rigidly [ˈrɪdʒɪdli] adv
(= stiffly) [stand, sit, lie] → tout(e) raide
[enforce, adhere to] → rigoureusement; [controlled, organized] → rigoureusement
[behave] → inflexiblement
rigidly
adv
(lit) stand etcstarr, steif; to stand rigidly to or at attentionin Habachtstellung sein; to sit rigidly uprightsteif aufrecht sitzen
(fig) behave, treatstreng, strikt; opposestur, strikt; (= intolerantly of others)unbeugsam
rigidly [ˈrɪdʒɪdlɪ] adv (strictly) → rigorosamente; (inflexibly) → inflessibilmente; (closely) → rigidamente
to stand rigidly to attention → stare impalato/a sull'attenti
rigidly [ˈrɪdʒɪdlɪ] adv (strictly) → rigorosamente; (inflexibly) → inflessibilmente; (closely) → rigidamente
to stand rigidly to attention → stare impalato/a sull'attenti


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And if anything about this chapter should seem to contradict the high ideals of the chapter preceding it, I can only say that, though the episode should not rigidly fulfil the conditions of the transcendental, nothing could have been more characteristic of that early youth to which I had vowed myself.
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Their observations, reproduced by Barbicane, were rigidly determined.
 
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