| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers | | Division (II) Intersocial Volition | | Section I. General Intersocial Volition |
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| 738. [Absence of Authority] Laxity. |
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| NOUN: | LAXITY; laxness, looseness, slackness; toleration (lenity) [See Lenity]; freedom [See Freedom].
ANARCHY, interregnum; relaxation; loosening &c. v.; remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen [L.], misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination (disobedience) [See Disobedience]; mob rule, mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; lynch law (illegality) [See Illegality], nihilism, reign of violence.
[DEPRIVATION OF POWER] dethronement, impeachment, deposition, abdication; usurpation.
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| VERB: | BE LAX &c. adj.; laisser faire [F.], laisser aller [F.]; hold a loose rein; give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to [obs.], give a free course to, give free rein to; tolerate; relax; misrule.
go beyond the length of one’s tether; have one’s -swing, - fling; act without -instructions, - authority; act on one’s own responsibility, usurp authority, undermine the authority of.
DETHRONE, depose; abdicate.
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| ADJECTIVE: | LAX, loose; slack; remiss (careless) [See Neglect]; weak.
RELAXED; licensed; reinless, unbridled; anarchic or anarchical, nihilistic; “agin the government”; unauthorized (unwarranted) [See Undueness]; adespotic, undespotic; not imperious (ruling) [See Authority].
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| QUOTATIONS: | - When the cat’s away the mice will play.—Proverb
- Pleasant it is for the little tin gods When great Jove nods.—Kipling
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