Word: rigorous
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...left in suspense. We are reminded, too, that in the world outside, the common experience of many generations has shunned giving absolute power to officers of the law, for fear of abuse or error, so that a judge is always limited by statute in the rigor of the sentence he may impose...