And this being the mode of inquiry, there is apt to result great laxity of interpretation.
The first paragraphs of his first chapter, quite startled us by the strangeness of their definitions--a strangeness which can scarcely be ascribed tolaxity of expression.
We are told that we are suffering from an excess of instinct, and from laxity of habit due to surrender to impulse as a law of life.
A laxity due to decadence of old habits cannot be corrected by exhortations to restore old habits in their former rigidity.
He has dissipated the prejudice that had long connected gaiety with vice, and easiness of manners with laxity of principles.
Of the laxity of his political principles, and the weakness of his resolution, he experienced the natural effect, by losing the esteem of every party.
In a mere lay reader, a slight laxityis allowable.
In a mere lay reader," quoted Gissing, "a slight laxityis allowable.
Restlessness, violence, audacity, laxity of principle, are the vices ordinarily attributed to that class of men.
Judging from the laxity with which the railroad laws have been enforced in a considerable number of States, their executive departments are as much under the influence of railroad managers as are the legislative departments of others.
Lord Salisbury when at the Post Office contrasted the stringency of later years with the laxity which prevailed in his early manhood.
This laxity in the case of newspapers may appear all the more extraordinary in view of the stringency which was observed in other matters.
I have said, and I say again, that the Church is a system of moral government, and that no laxity can be permitted.
Considering the bold and blasphemous laxity of modern Christian customs, it was surely quite a fanatical idea.
It combined all the faults of all the ages--laxity of morals, indifference to high aims, combined with religious fanaticism and a lack of appreciation of knowledge and learning.
It has been averred that if we study the characters and lives of the great ladies of the Puritan party, we shall find much laxity under the guise of strictness.
That there was laxity in the government of some of the convents which resulted in idleness and waste of money is evident.
Bret Harte had to deal with countries and communities of an almost unexampled laxity, a laxity passing the laxity of savages, the laxity of civilised men grown savage.
An ecclesiastic, who one day delivered a discourse in his presence, took occasion to advert to the laxity of the age, in general terms, indeed, but bearing too pertinent an application to the cardinal to be mistaken.
The laxity of the Church towards its erring members was still further illustrated by the reforms adopted in the provincial synod of Toledo, held in 1565 to receive the Council of Trent.
There was muchlaxity in the character of the evidence accepted.
As might be expected laxity of rule and widespread proprietas brought immorality in their train and Busch in several cases mentions that a convent was ill-famed for incontinence.
Bishop Stapeldon, it will be recalled, allowed the nuns in his diocese to remain away for a month and longer; how he reconciled such laxity with his conscience and the Bull Periculoso is not plain.
Another instance of the incompetence of the nuns was their laxity in the matter of keeping accounts, in which the Rouen nuns were in no way exceptional.
If the number of sheep who were black, or even grey, preponderated and if laxity were general in the community, the chapter would not concern itself to raise its own standard.
The monastic houses of Germany had by the fifteenth century fallen into great laxity of rule.
What is the result of this laxity of morals, of this continual wandering of nuns in the world?
The frivolities of dress and laxity of morals introduced by James the First, increased by the mixture of French fashions under the popish wife of Charles the First, had spread their debauching influence throughout the kingdom.
At the present day, great laxity of discipline has crept in.
Probably, on the majority of estates bark-shavings are collected systematically, but on quite a number considerable laxity in this respect has been noted.
But there is a certain amount of laxity exhibited in the matter of providing sieves in drains.
The influence of his previous philosophical training, nay, even the unconscious influence of terminology, frequently induces in his statements a certain laxity and want of clearness.
But, as regards outward conduct, there was no definite lex, and arguments in favour both of strictness and of laxity were brought forward from the Holy Scriptures.
Before this Tertullian's opponents who favoured laxity had appealed exactly in the same way to numerous Bible texts, e.
It is in cities, not in villages, that laxity is to be looked for.
This plan would combine the inevitable intolerance of an enlightened censorship with the popular laxity of the Lord Chamberlain.
It were well that they should be reproduced now at a time when the laxity of wedlock and the wicked facilities for divorce are working such peril to our domestic life.
Such is the laxity of Highland conversation that the inquirer is kept in continual suspense, and by a kind of intellectual retrogradation, knows less as he hears more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laxity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
