单词 | relaxity |
释义 | relaxityn. Now rare. The state of being relaxed; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] freedomOE freenesslOE libertya1393 licence?a1400 wilfulnessc1460 immunity1549 latitude1605 voluntariness1612 liberum arbitrium1642 free agencya1646 libertinism1649 unrestrainedness1698 unrestraint1755 relaxity1759 head1804 laissez-aller1818 unrestrictedness1825 uninhibitedness1947 the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > [noun] > muscular tension > looseness of muscles laxation1398 relaxing?a1425 laxity1528 laxness1634 relaxity1908 1759 T. Stephens Castle-builders (ed. 2) 283 His Body..began to be very corpulent, and his Limbs to swell; which the Doctor imputed to such a Relaxity, occasioned by repeated Blows with a beam of Sol, that it portended Death. a1784 S. Johnson Serm. (1788) I. xiii. 271 Men have ever been persuaded, that by doing something, to which they think themselves not obliged, they may purchase an exemption from such duties as they find themselves inclined to violate: that they may commute with heaven for a temporal fine, and make rigour atone for relaxity. 1836 F. Trollope Life & Adventures Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw xlvii. 311 I advocate your watching without much relaxity of attention. 1908 Daily Mail 30 June 9/5 The great secret of voice production is relaxity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1759 |
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