Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being remiss; Blackness: carelessness; negligence; lack of ardor or vigor; lack of attention to any business, duty, or engagement in the proper time or with the requisite industry.
  • noun Synonyms Oversight, etc. See negligence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Quality or state of being remiss.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The characteristic of being remiss; carelessness; negligence; tardiness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being lax and neglectful

Etymologies

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From remiss +‎ -ness.

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Examples

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

    Chapter 2 2010

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

    Chapter 19 2010

  • But negligence or remissness on the part of the cruisers stationed to maintain the blockade, may excuse persons, under circumstances, for violating the blockade.

    Boarding a ship in international waters 2010

  • I wish to apologize for putting you to the inconvenience of having to come over and apprise me of my remissness.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • As it was my intention to answer it while away from home, my remissness was wrong.

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • As long as she has it, her remissness going to keep sapping your energy, at least a little; resentment can suck up an awful lot of vim.

    Author! Author! » 2009 » February 2009

  • As long as she has it, her remissness going to keep sapping your energy, at least a little; resentment can suck up an awful lot of vim.

    Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Getting good feedback, part IX: more wrangling with Gladioli 2009

  • The vexation such remissness occasioned, interrupted her sleep; yet she trusted there still might be time to forward it to Richmond, before she departed for the Hebrides.

    The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

  • Dr. Marchmont was silent, and they walked out of the room together; leaving the deceived Camilla persuaded he was so indifferent with regard to the old peer, that all her influence was lost, and all her late exertions were thrown away, by one evening's remissness in exciting his fears of a young rival.

    Camilla 2008

  • Camilla felt sorry and ashamed; but too much disturbed to attempt any palliation for her non-appearance, and remissness of even a note or message.

    Camilla 2008

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