remissness

I could not bear to think that a minute should be lost by remissness or hesitation.

Whatever my previous folly and remissness in the matter, I did not delay now.

Obviously the best amends that I could make for this remissness was to go and look at it without another moment's delay.

During the few years that remained to him, he was to regret bitterly the remissness he had shown in this matter.

For this accident, he was court&ed, convicted and censured for "remissness in performance".

With an apology for my remissness, I went into my own room to get the papers from my bag.

After two weeks of this plague the Paiutes drew to council to consider the remissness of their medicine-men.

So, to make up for her remissness she was extra nice to her, and promised to go and speak to Gwen's people when they arrived.

Sometimes I thought that the fiend followed me and might expedite my remissness by murdering my companion.

Now muttering his irritation at Timmers' remissness, he pushed open the door and reached hurriedly for the hall switch.

He was recorder of Salisbury as early as 1638, when complaints were made against him for his remissness in collecting ship-money.

This is not canonical, but is due to men's occasional remissness of purpose, and because there is no one to serve the congregation.

The least remissness in preparation, the least relaxation in execution, will only serve to prolong the war, and increase expenses.

Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?

On the latter occasion he would have won a signal victory but for the unaccountable remissness of his second-in-command, Admiral Liljehorn.

He used few words as he apologized for his remissness and he said almost nothing that suggested loneliness and depri- vation.

When one of Sondes sons killed another of his sons in 1655, Sondes's was blamed for moral remissness.

Pardon my remissness, Captain Valkanhayn," Harkaman apologized.

As soon as he had apologized for the remissness of his memory, he asked me if he should send Boots for Mr. Pumblechook?

Now if it had been nickel . . ." His tone conveyed disapproval of Mr. Todhunter's remissness in using a lead bullet.

He resolved that never through remissness would he make himself liable to such a visitation or do or omit aught that might merit even verbal reproof.

Through her remissness the ball dress was unfinished, and the girl, springing to her feet, turned intuitively to the sewing-machine, when the ringing laugh of Katherine dissolved the fog.

An address to the King was prepared confessing the remissness of the colony in respect to the acts of trade, and mentioning the new statute concerning the act of piracy.

Through no fault or remissness of his own, but the machinations of an envious fellow-scholar, Shih Liang was suddenly deprived of his position and found himself without means of support.

More 'opposed Marian religious policy in the 1555 parliament, was hauled before the council for "lewd words" in 1556, and was reprimanded for his remissness in investigating conventicles in 1557'.