halldór kiljan laxness
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| —adj | |
| 1. | lacking firmness; not strict |
| 2. | lacking precision or definition |
| 3. | not taut |
| 4. | phonetics (of a speech sound) pronounced with little muscular effort and consequently having relatively imprecise accuracy of articulation and little temporal duration. In English the vowel i in bit is lax |
| 5. | (of flower clusters) having loosely arranged parts |
| [C14 (originally used with reference to the bowels): from Latin laxus loose] | |
| 'laxly | |
| —adv | |
| 'laxity | |
| —n | |
| 'laxness | |
| —n | |
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| Laxness (ˈlaxsnɛs) | |
| —n | |
| Halldór (Kiljan) (haldəʊr). 1902--98, Icelandic novelist, noted for his treatment of rural working life in Iceland. His works include Salka Valka (1932) and Independent People (1935). Nobel prize for literature 1955 | |
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