vigor

[vigĀ·or]

If your new puppy runs all over the house, jumps on the furniture, and enthusiastically chews up your socks, you may congratulate yourself on your new pup's vigor, or lively sense of energy.

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Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.

Noun
an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"

Noun
active strength of body or mind

Noun
an exertion of force; "he plays tennis with great energy"


n.
Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.

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

n.
Strength; efficacy; potency.

v. t.
To invigorate.


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.
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.
&hand; 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.

Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.

To invigorate.

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Usage Examples

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

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Other Usage Examples

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

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