rigidly

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RIG'IDLY, adverb 1. Stuffy; unpliantly. 2. Severely; strictly; exactly; without laxity, indulgence or abatement; as, to judge rigidly; to criticize rigidly; to execute a law rigidly
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