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• rigourist

Noun

rigorist ‎(plural rigorists)

1. Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 338:

     These rigorists wanted to borrow Old Testament exclusions from participation in the Temple liturgy and apply them to pregnant women and the sexual relations of married couples.