slackness; toleration &c (lenity) 740; freedom &c 748.
anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening &c v.; remission; dead
letter, brutum fulmen [Lat.], misrule; license, licentiousness;
insubordination &c (disobedience) 742; lynch law &c (illegality) 964;
nihilism, reign of violence.
[Deprivation of power] dethronement, deposition, usurpation,
abdication.
V. be lax &c adj.; laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; hold a
loose rein; give the reins to, give rope enough, give a loose to;
tolerate; relax; misrule.
go beyond the length of one's tether; have one's swing, have one's
fling; act without instructions, act without authority, act outside of
one's authority; act on one's own responsibility, usurp authority.
dethrone, depose; abdicate.
Adj. lax, loose; slack; remiss &c (careless) 460; weak.
relaxed; licensed; reinless†, unbridled; anarchical; unauthorized
&c (unwarranted) 925; adespotic†.