laxity

Roget-categorie 738

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#738. [Absence of authority] Laxity

zelfstandig naamwoord

laxity — laxness, looseness, slackness — toleration etc. (lenity) 740 — freedom etc. 748.
anarchy, interregnum — relaxation — loosening etc. v. — remission — dead letter, brutum fulmen [Lat.], misrule — license, licentiousness — insubordination etc. (disobedience) 742 — lynch law etc. (illegality) 964 — nihilism, reign of violence.
[Deprivation of power] dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication.

werkwoord

be lax etc. adj. — laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.] — hold a loose rein — give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to — tolerate — relax — misrule.
go beyond the length of one's tether — have one's swing, have one's fling — act without instructions, act without authority, act outside of one's authority — act on one's own responsibility, usurp authority.
dethrone, depose — abdicate.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

lax, loose — slack — remiss etc. (careless) 460 — weak.
relaxed — licensed — reinless^†, unbridled — anarchical — unauthorized etc. (unwarranted) 925 — adespotic^†.

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