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They are there regarded as being “simply the rigorists among the Pharisees.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

This last contemplation of the Pharisees, the dogmatists, and the rigorists 'in toto genere', serves to reconcile me to the fewness of the men who act on fixed principles.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

They were the rigorists of the eastern church.

From Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology by Luce, A. A. (Arthur Aston)

Up to the present time I believe I have been in perfect accord with the rigorists in morals.

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich

Not certainly in every case, and yet perhaps in more than rigorists would fancy.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis