vigour
English
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editFrom Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeō (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be lively”).
Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker.
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editvigour (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, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
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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editactive 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
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strength; efficacy; potency
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Old French
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editvigour oblique singular, m (oblique plural vigours, nominative singular vigours, nominative plural vigour)
- Alternative form of vigur
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