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ˈbrightsome, a. arch.
[f. bright a. + -some: cf. gladsome, darksome.]
Partaking of or exhibiting brightness, bright-looking. (A vaguer word than bright, leaving more to the imagination.)
1558Phaër æneid ix. (1560) B b iij, His hie helme..that brightsome beames reflecting shone. 1577Holinshed Chron. I. 99/2 Men of so brightsome countenances. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon vi. 13 As brightsome as the Paramour of Mars. 1635J. Hayward Banish'd Virg. 108 The night..is yet very brightsome and cleare. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 154 Let me strew Their brightsome blossoms.
Hence ˈbrightsomeness. arch.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 734 The brightsomenes of the gold. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers II. vi. 283 The brightsomeness of the Gospel was dimmed. |