Lexicographical Neighbors of Laxism
Literary usage of Laxism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church by Henry Charles Lea (1896)
"... and he says that more excuse their evil lives through this rigorism than had
formerly done so on pretext of laxism.1 It is evident that the scheme of ..."
2. Ethics, General and Special by Owen Aloysius Hill (1920)
"Among all the above systems, laxism excepted, Probabilism apparently savors most
... Rigorism and laxism have been condemned by the Church in the persons of ..."
3. The Theological Monthly (1889)
"In so saying, you cease to be our Father, and take your place among the ranks of
our opponents and accusers, seeing that you admit the laxism, which, ..."
4. Ethics: Or, Moral Philosophy by Walter Henry Hill (1884)
"When laxism and rigorism in civil government have reached their uttermost extremes
of abuse, they then lead directly and certainly to the two great social ..."
5. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"... but this was only another incident in the struggle between rigorism and laxism.
While Jansenism thus was denounced as a heresy, it really was concerned ..."
6. The Life and Times of John Carroll: Archbishop of Baltimore, 1735-1815 by Peter Guilday (1922)
"The American Church has been free to a great extent from these theological
discussions of laxism and rigorism, and it is well for the history of our Church ..."
7. The Methodist Review (1889)
"the laxism which had become prevalent among the Jesuits, H. Noris, a cardinal of
the Augustinian order, said: The General's opponents regard his attack on ..."
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