| Definitions | vigour
noun (uncountable)
- Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
- The vigor of this arm was never vain. Dryden.
- Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
- Strength; efficacy; potency.
- But in the fruithful earth ... His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. Milton.
Etymology: Old English vigour, vigor; Old French vigor, vigur, vigour; French vigueur, from Latin vigor, from vigere to be lively or strong. See Vegetable, Vigil.
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