laxity

How To Use laxity In A Sentence

• The final polemic is found in Maimonides, who objects to Karaite practices which had proliferated among the Jews, i.e. bathing in drawn water, laxity in accounting of the seven clean days and, even worse, sprinkling instead of immersion. Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography.
• What are you comparing, the laxity in enforcement or the law abidance?
• This laxity is nothing but a way to encourage these people to commit heinous acts. Global Voices in English » Morocco: Rage Against the Sandwich Continues
• In some cases in which exophthalmos has been seemingly spontaneous, extreme laxity of the lids may serve as an explanation. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
• The author admonishes British authorities on the laxity of their border controls.
• It appears that the major problem accounting for failure of the arthroscopic approach is excessive or recurrent laxity of the articular capsule.
• Some readers may feel a prickling of unease at the possibility that the pleasant laxity of modern mores—in language, dress and eating habits—might contribute to a flabbiness of will on bigger matters. The Will in the World
• Drifting down the river in silence, the lovers indulge, by velar and glottal tension as well as ethical laxity, in a "grave untiring gaze" of reciprocated desire that seems released from the phonemic chiasm of "solitude" and Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
• He was a theologian with well-defined critiques of secularism and unhealthy laxity of behavior on moral precepts.
• It is well indeed that our churches, sadly given over to the laxity and carelessness of a bygone age, should be renovated and beautified, the tone of the services raised, and the "bray" of the old clerks, unsuited to the devotional feelings of a more enlightened day, silenced, but still a shade of regret will be mingled with their dismissal, if only for the sake of the large stock of amusing anecdotes which their names recall. The Parish Clerk