remissness

NOUN
  1. the quality of being lax and neglectful
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How To Use remissness In A Sentence

  • Pretending now to repent him of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • Pretending now to repent of his former practice, and carrying himself with more remissness, he became acceptable to such as pillaged the treasury, by not detecting or calling them to an exact account. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
  • He associated himself with the justiciar in the appointment of royal officials; he invoked the papal authority to put down "adulterine castles," and to prevent any baron having more than one royal stronghold in his custody; he prolonged the truce with France, and strove to pacify the Prince of North Wales; he procured the resumption of the royal domain, and rebuked Bishop Peter and the justiciar for remissness in dealing with Jewish usurers; he filled up bishoprics at his own discretion. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)
  • «The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. Matthew Yglesias » The Public Wants Good Outcomes, Elites and Institutions Should Try to Deliver Them
  • I've been remiss in mentioning it, but when it comes to the Internet in general I am the epitome of remissness.
  • The Remissness of our People in paying Taxes is highly blameable, the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. Robert Morris
  • He also said he wished ‘to have done public justice to the mildness of the present administration and at the same time to have acquitted them… of any charge of remissness in not having previously detected a conspiracy.’
  • I doubt not a justice-loving public will have remarked, ere this, that I have thus far shown a criminal remissness in pursuing, catching, and bringing to condign punishment the would-be assassin of Mr. Robert Moore: here was a fine opening to lead my willing readers a dance, at once decorous and exciting: a dance of law and gospel, of the dungeon, the dock, and the 'dead-thraw.' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Anyway, I believe I have attained a level of remissness which is no longer pleasant, and therefore cannot remit any more.
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