levity
noun
lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness.
levities
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pluralof levity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Sir Stafford's character was unimpeachable, her Ladyship's had nothing more grave against it than the ordinary levities of her station.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
P.S. I hope these foolish letters don’t cost you and Morton much: I always pay 1s. 7d. for them here: which ought to carry such levities to Hindostan without further charge.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
Besides all this, the untravelled Englishman—and such was Glencore when he married—never can be brought to understand the harmless levities of foreign life.
From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Charles James Lever
His zeal against all these levities, he says, was first moved by observing that plays sold better than the choicest sermons, and that they were frequently printed on finer paper than the Bible itself.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
I wonder if, in the midst of the stammered and blurted incoherences, the lapses and levities, of this quaint book, a sort of "orientation," as the theologians say now, has emerged at all?
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
