remissness

Example Sentences

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I would not have it thought that any payment made by me to settle the present situation could be considered in the slightest degree as an admission of any remissness.

From Time Magazine Archive

The suit, said Mr. Wiggin, was hampering proper administration of the two estates, and their offers were not to be construed as a posthumous confession of remissness.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

"I am afraid--it is unpardonable remissness on my part; but I am afraid that, if I have ever had the pleasure of meeting you before, it is a pleasure which has escaped my memory."

From Amusement Only by Marsh, Richard

The kirk indeed put Dunbar to the account of its own remissness in not purging their army more thoroughly, but, as Cromwell wrote on the 4th of September, the kirk had “done its do.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various