| 单词 | lightness of heart |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslightness of heart 2. Cheerfulness, high spirits, joy, mirth; freedom from sadness or worry. In later use also: breeziness, liveliness. Frequently in lightness of heart, lightness of spirit. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [noun] merrinesseOE gladnessc900 mirtheOE playeOE dreamOE gladshipc975 lissOE willOE hightOE blithenessc1000 gladc1000 winOE blissc1175 delices?c1225 delight?c1225 joy?c1225 comfortc1230 listc1275 gladhead1303 daintyc1325 fainnessc1340 lightnessa1350 delectationc1384 delightingc1390 comfortationa1400 fainheada1400 blithec1400 fainc1400 delicacyc1405 gladsomeness1413 reveriea1425 joyousitiea1450 joyfulnessc1485 jucundity1536 joyousness1549 joc1560 delightfulness1565 jouissance1579 joyance1590 levitya1631 revelling1826 chuckle1837 joyancy1849 a song in one's heart1862 delightsomeness1866 the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > light-heartedness lightnessa1350 light-heartedness1603 jauntiness1712 gaieté de cœur1728 sans souci1781 boyhood1829 sans-souci-ism1837 breeziness1885 gaydom1922 carefreeness1924 viscerotonia1980 happy-go-luckiness2008 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 66 God wes bore on þoro lay, ant brohte vs lyhtnesse. c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) iv. 7 Þou ȝaf liȝtnes [L. lætitiam] in my hert. a1450 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Harl. 4866) (1897) l. 1244 (MED) Myn hert is al nakid of lightnesse. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Riiiv And this lyghtnesse or myrthe maye come somtyme of the clerenes of mannes conscience. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 55 They signifie Quarrels picked out of lightness of heart. 1828 R. Nesbit in Mem. (1858) iii. 83 I am able to pursue my proper work with my usual lightness of spirit. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. v. 73 He really hardly knew what to do to give vent to his lightness of heart. 1954 E. Hargreaves Handful of Silver xii. 183 ‘I've made a real pig's ear of it, haven't I?’ said Basil, with an attempt at lightness. 1976 G. Jones tr. D. J. Williams in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 123 She was conscious somehow of a marvellous sense of well-being, a lightness of spirit, without the smallest regret for anything she had ever done. 2017 K. Shamsie Home Fire ii. 51 There was a lightness inside her, entirely new, that made the whole world rearrange itself into a place of undreamt-of possibilities. < as lemmas |
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