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vig·or

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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, especially legal validity.
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Also, especially British, vig·our.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English vigo(u)r < Anglo-French; Middle French vigeur < Latin vigor force, energy, equivalent to vig(ēre) to be vigorous, thrive + -or -or1

Related forms
vig·or·less, adjective

Synonyms
2. drive, force, strength.

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vigour or (US) vigor (ˈvɪɡə)
 
—n
1.  exuberant and resilient strength of body or mind; vitality
2.  substantial effective energy or force: the vigour of the tempest
3.  forcefulness; intensity: the vigour of her complaints
4.  the capacity for survival or strong healthy growth in a plant or animal: hybrid vigour
5.  the most active period or stage of life, manhood, etc; prime
6.  chiefly (US) legal force or effectiveness; validity (esp in the phrase in vigour)
 
[C14: from Old French vigeur, from Latin vigor activity, from vigēre to be lively]
 
vigor or (US) vigor
 
—n
 
[C14: from Old French vigeur, from Latin vigor activity, from vigēre to be lively]

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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).
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vigour
British spelling of vigor (q.v.); for suffix, see -or.
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