remissly


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re·miss

 (rĭ-mĭs′)
adj.
Lax in attending to duty; negligent. See Synonyms at negligent.
[Middle English, from Latin remissus, past participle of remittere, to remit, slacken; see remit.]
re·miss′ly adv.
re·miss′ness n.
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For those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion are still at war; and their condition, not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another; and they live, as it were, in the procincts of battle continually.
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