Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rigorism

Rigorism , noun

[Compare French rigorisme.]

1.
Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
2.
Severity, as of style, or the like. — Jefferson
3.
(Ethics) Strictness in ethical principles; -- usually applied to ascetic ethics, and opposed to ethical latitudinarianism.