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▪ I. lightsomely, adv.1|ˈlaɪtsəmlɪ| [f. lightsome a.1 + -ly2.] Lightly, nimbly; gaily, merrily.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. (1577) E 1 b, He settleth himselfe lightsomly (not thinking vpon it) in a readie aptnesse. 1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xvi. (1713) 214 Though the Phancy of Cuphophron may seem more than ordinary ludibund and lightsomely sportful. 1808Scott Marm. ii. Introd., The bugles ringing lightsomely. 1837Hawthorne Twice-Told T. (1851) II. ix. 131, I perceive a flock of snow birds, skimming lightsomely through the tempest. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iii. 88 They now most lightsomely live in that happiness to which there comes no end. ▪ II. † ˈlightsomely, adv.2 Obs. [f. lightsome a.2 + -ly2.] Clearly, lucidly, manifestly.
c1510More Picus Wks. 7/1 The same thing also in his boke, which he entitled de Ente & Vno, lightsomely he treateth. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 381 Gods favour shining more lightsomly had scattered away the clouds of contention. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 23 It is not as yet..made lightsomely famous. |