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laxness

[lahks-nes]

noun

Hall·dór Kil·jan

[hahl-dohr kil-yahn] , 1902–98, Icelandic writer: Nobel prize 1955.

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lax (læks)

—*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

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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