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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I have sung them all;—youth's lightsomeness that fleets, Pure friendship, my most fondly cherished dreams, Wild blossoms and the winds that steal their sweets, Wood odors, and the star that whitely gleams.
From In Divers Tones by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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 was a chatter of voices in the drawing-room, a chatter of a lightsomeness that Henson had never heard before.
From The Crimson Blind by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White
It vitalizes, warms, fuses, and imparts a lightsomeness to his verse; it creeps and kindles beneath the tissues of his thought.
From An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry by Hiram Corson
So joyous and merry was he, that the squirrels squeaked and scurried away at sight of him, and the very hyenas laughed in harmony as he passed by singing, "Tra-la-la!" in his blithe lightsomeness.
From The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mabel Henriette Spielmann
