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Our governments were less remissly administered; since each of us, by continued reports of improvements and gracious concessions to the folly or the weakness of our subjects, stimulated the zeal of his rival.

From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas

Their commission was executed more remissly by the Albans.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus

They rather feel themselves its willing instruments, co-operating with it, blindly sometimes and sometimes remissly, and for every failure of intelligence or vigilance, punished by temporal calamities.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.

In some they are more accurately fitted, in others more remissly or carelessly contrived, and always with a view to their being closed under a greater or a slighter force of the ventricle.

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

The generals were complained of, and as they seemed to be carrying on the siege remissly, they were removed, and others appointed, among them Camillus, who was then tribune for the second time.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey