remissness

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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

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

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

Meantime Hanbury and Tommy had made up for any remissness on part of their esteemed colleague.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 by Various

He took advantage of my remissness in watching him, and tried to escape back to his own men.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John