The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of from; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance. Sir H. Wotton.
Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] Bp. Burnet.
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