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Definition of Laxest
1. lax [adj] - See also: lax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laxest
Literary usage of Laxest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the commissioners by Schools inquiry commission, Great Britain Schools Inquiry Commission (1868)
"There seems no doubt that the free universities are the laxest in passing
candidates; as Turin, with its traditions of a strict ..."
2. A History of England in the Eighteenth Century by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1888)
"Bolingbroke, who introduced it in the Lords, and Windham, who introduced it in
the Commons, were both men of the laxest principles, and of the laxest morals ..."
3. Aristotle's Politics: Books I. III. IV. (VII.) by Aristotle, Immanuel Bekker, William Ernest Bolland, Andrew Lang (1877)
"... mixed up ont of all that Greeks and Barbarians use separately.'и Commerce, in
short, made the laxest democracy possible, and the laxest ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"It is impossible to imagine anything more inconsistent with even the laxest
classical conception of an epic than Gebir or any less Aristotelian drama than ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"His sympathies were at first with the royalist views of his grandfather, but when
he found that the laxest members of the university were attracted to that ..."
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