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vig⋅or

[vig-er]
–noun
1. active strength or force.
2. healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality.
3. energetic activity; energy; intensity: The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor.
4. force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant.
5. active or effective force, esp. legal validity.
Also, especially British, vigour.


Origin:
1300–50; ME vigo(u)r < AF; MF vigeur < L vigor force, energy, equiv. to vig(ēre) to be vigorous, thrive + -or -or 1


vig⋅or⋅less, adjective


2. drive, force, strength.
vig·or   (vĭg'ər)   
n.  
  1. Physical or mental strength, energy, or force.
  2. The capacity for natural growth and survival, as of plants or animals.
  3. Strong feeling; enthusiasm or intensity.
  4. Legal effectiveness or validity.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin, from vigēre, to be lively; see weg- in Indo-European roots.]
Synonyms: These nouns denote a quality of spirited force or energy: intellectual vigor; played the piano with dash; an editorial with real punch; painted with verve; arguing with his usual vim; a decreased mental vitality.

Vigor

Vig"or\, n. [OE. vigour, vigor, OF. vigor, vigur, vigour, F. vigueur, fr. L. vigor, fr. vigere to be lively or strong. See Vegetable, Vigil.]

1. 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.

2. Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.

3. Strength; efficacy; potency.

But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. --Milton.

Note: Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.

Vigor

Vig"or\, v. t. To invigorate. [Obs.] --Feltham.
Language Translation for : vigor
Spanish: viveza,
German: der Schwung,
Japanese: 活気

vigor 
c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. vigour, O.Fr. vigor, from L. vigorem (nom. vigor) "liveliness, activity, force," from vigere "be lively, flourish, thrive," from PIE *wog-/*weg- "be lively or active" (see vigil).

Main Entry: vigor
Variant: or chiefly British vigour
—see HYBRID VIGOR

vigor

see vim and vigor.

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