lightsome
adjective
light, especially in form, appearance, or movement; airy; buoyant; agile; nimble; graceful.
lightsomeness
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a word derived from
lightsome.
Example Sentences
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“Shop” was sternly forbidden as a subject of conversation, and the remotest reference thereto was instantly booed into silence, for behind all the lightsomeness of demeanour a weight of anxiety lay on each heart.
From A College Girl by William H. C. Groome
There was lightsomeness and gladness in every breath.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Carterette, with all her seeming lightsomeness, had sense and self- possession.
From The Battle of the Strong — Volume 4 A Romance of Two Kingdoms by Gilbert Parker
Yet Drayton could write well, and had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy, as his "Nymphidia" proves.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
There it is, like some persistent minor in a great piece of music, wailing on through all the embroidery and lightsomeness of the cheerfuller and loftier notes.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
