Laxity

Definitions

1. The state of being lax; looseness, lack of tension.
   countable, uncountable
2. Moral looseness; lack of rigorousness or strictness.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“In these days of laxity, and anythingism in religion, even those of whom we might hope⟳ better things do not appear⟳ exercised, with the apostle Paul, to have⟳ always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men.”

“It is no accident that capital punishment is reentering our society on the wave⟳ of the conservative reaction to the permissiveness and laxity of the past two decades.”

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