Laxness definition

läksnes
(person) (born Halldór Gudjonsson) 1902-98; Icelandic novelist.
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The property of being lax, lacking strictness.

There was a certain laxness in safety preparations that made the fire worse.

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Origin of laxness

  • lax +"Ž -ness

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Laxness Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • Land monopoly is an evil of large proportions in California to-day, but it is due to the laxness of the United States government in enabling speculators to accumulate holdings and not to the original extent of Mexican grants.

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