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vigours

vigours is the plural of vigour.

Meaning of vigour

Noun

vigour (countable and uncountable, plural vigours)

  1. Active strength or force of body or mind; a capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; energy.
    • The vigour of this arm was never vain1717, John Dryden (tr.), Metamorphoses By Ovid, Book the Twelfth
    Synonyms:
    vim, ginger, punch, edge
  2. Strength or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
    • A plant grows with vigour.
  3. Strength; efficacy; potency.
    • But in the fruithful earth: there first receiv'd / His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.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...

Questions about vigours

What is vigours the plural of?
Vigours is the plural of vigour.

Words near vigours in the dictionary

  1. vigourless
  2. vigourlessness
  3. vigourous
  4. vigourously
  5. vigourousness
  6. vigours
  7. Vigrass
  8. Vigrasses
  9. vigs
  10. Vigue
  11. Vigues

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