Laxest vs Laxist - What's the difference?
laxest | laxist |
(lax)
A salmon.
lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
* J. A. Symonds
loose; not tight or taut.
* Ray
lacking care; neglectful, negligent
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 1
, author=Phil Dawkes
, title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom
, work=BBC Sport
(archaic) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
lacrosse
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(chiefly, theology) Someone promoting lax views or relaxed interpretations of something.
(chiefly, theology) Promoting a lax view or interpretation of something.
*2002 , ,The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 248:
*:The Jesuits, it was charged, championed a laxist theology which encouraged rather than deterred sin [...].
As adjectives the difference between laxest and laxist
is that laxest is (lax) while laxist is (chiefly|theology) promoting a lax view or interpretation of something.As a noun laxist is
(chiefly|theology) someone promoting lax views or relaxed interpretations of something.laxest
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*lax
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* (Killian)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lax, from (etyl) .Noun
(laxes)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(er)- The rules are fairly lax , but you have to know which ones you can bend.
- Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax , in matters of the passions.
- The rope fell lax .
- the flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy
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