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Webster 1913 Edition


Laxity

Lax′i-ty

(lăks′ĭ-ty̆)
,
Noun.
[L.
laxitas
, fr.
laxus
loose, slack: cf. F.
laxité
, See
Lax
,
Adj.
]
The state or quality of being lax; lack of tenseness, strictness, or exactness.

Webster 1828 Edition


Laxity

LAX'ITY

,
Noun.
[L. laxitas.]
1.
Looseness; slackness; the opposite of tenseness or tension.
2.
Looseness of texture.
3.
Want of exactness or precision; as laxity of expression.
4.
Looseness; defect of exactness; as laxity of morals.
5.
Looseness, as of the bowels; the opposite of costiveness.
6.
Openness; not closeness.