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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles or interpretations of the laxists.
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Examples
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The current economic crises was also partly cause by his governement laxism durant the last 8 years.
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The "correction" of laxism and probabilism is at least an indication that some of the principles used by the Jesuits and their School were liable to error.
The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start 2009
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The rigorists, tutiorists and probabiliorists mainly Dominicans and Franciscans liked to take this decree as proof for the condemnation of probabilism but the probabilists themselves considered it as condemning only laxism.
The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start 2009
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But on any authentically Catholic account, both (1) and (2) must be deemed false; the truth must lie somewhere in between, at a golden mean between rigorism and laxism.
Salvation at the golden mean Mike L 2007
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Rigorism and laxism have each had their adherents; in this age of relativism and its religious correlate, "indifferentism," 2 seems to have many adherents among Catholics.
Salvation at the golden mean Mike L 2007
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But on any authentically Catholic account, both (1) and (2) must be deemed false; the truth must lie somewhere in between, at a golden mean between rigorism and laxism.
Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007
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Rigorism and laxism have each had their adherents; in this age of relativism and its religious correlate, "indifferentism," 2 seems to have many adherents among Catholics.
Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007
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I wanted to open a discussion on how our American Institutions have been hijacked by a two-faced monster: rightwing extremists assisted by a popular laxism exemplified by the breakdown of ethics and professionalism.
Council to Support Repeal of Civil Union Ban at cvillenews.com 2004
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This supplement serves to keep up to date the work of Ferraris, which will ever remain a precious mine of information, although it is sometimes possible to reproach the author with laxism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Today it is readily seen that some of the authors whom he attacked favoured a dangerous laxism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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