Laxness

Lax·ness

(born Halldór Gudjonsson) 1902-98; Icelandic novelist

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Noun

(uncountable)

The property of being lax, lacking strictness.
There was a certain laxness in safety preparations that made the fire worse.

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lax +"Ž -ness

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The Liberal party, which now came into control in the college repeatedly disappointed the hopes of Cotton Mather that he might be chosen president, and by its ecclesiastical laxness and its broader views of Church polity forced the Mathers to turn from Harvard to Yale as a truer school of the prophets.
All those texts in which the grammar is handled, now with laxness and want of skill, and again with absolute barbarism, may probably be placed to the account of the Sassanian redactors.

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