Lexicographical Neighbors of Laxists
Literary usage of Laxists
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 the laxists admit the right of a penitent on whom an unjust or an unreasonable
penance is imposed to have recourse to another confessor, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The laxists were taken as typical casuists, and because some of them were Jesuits,
Jesuit morality became a byword of reproach. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"... that one is free to act if he has even a slight reason to conclude that he i«
in the right. The laxists were condemned by Innocent XL, and the Absolute ..."
4. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1894)
"... though there were some laxists who argued that if at the time of the receipt
of the dower the father was rich enough to make restitution himself, ..."
5. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"... Tirso González, because he wrote a book to prove that the Jesuits were not
all laxists. When, under the protection of Leopold, Grand-duke of Tuscany, ..."
6. The Knowledge of God and Its Historical Development by Henry Melvill Gwatkin (1907)
"... or at least what practical difference he made from the Jesuit moral theology.
No doubt he was not one of the laxists; he follows ..."
7. A Brief Text-book of Moral Philosophy by Charles Coppens (1895)
"... the easier course has solid probability in its favor, even though the other
course has greater probability. 5. laxists permit liberty of choice even ..."
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