vigour
part of speech
noun (vigour — uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Vigour is great strength, energy and enthusiasm in the body or the mind. tree →
2) Vigour can describe healthy, strong growth of plants. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: It means strength and energy in life. Proverbs warns that a man could waste it on wrongdoing. Interpretation: It is read as a warning not to give your best years and strength to wrong things. In the primary lessons: In PE and health, exercise gives you vigour. In stories, a character works «with vigour», meaning hard and with energy, as Badger does when he starts to fight. In gardening, a plant grows with vigour when it is healthy.
examples
- Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; (Writings PRO.5.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- He scrubbed the floor with great vigour. tree →
- The old man still had the vigour of a young one. tree →
- The team played with new vigour after half-time. tree →
- The roses grew with vigour after the rain. tree →
- She argued with vigour for her idea. tree →
- The Rat rowed with vigour. tree →
- Heracles now regained his former vigour. tree →
note
Uncountable. Spelling: vigour (UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Ireland), vigor (US). Adjective: vigorous (no u in either spelling). Adverb: vigorously.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «vigour» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.