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vig⋅or

  [vig-er]
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–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

Related forms:
vig⋅or⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
2. drive, force, strength.
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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.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : vigor
Spanish: viveza,
German: der Schwung,
Japanese: 活気
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: vigor
Variant: or chiefly British vigour
—see HYBRID VIGOR
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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vigor

see vim and vigor.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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