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lightful, a.|ˈlaɪtfʊl|
[f. light n. + -ful.]
Full of light (lit. and fig.); luminous, bright.
1382Wyclif Luke xi. 34 Al thi body schal be liȝtful. a1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 20 Aungelle in hevyn evyrmore xal be, In lythful clere bryth as ble. 1587Golding De Mornay iii. 35 Mortall sight, Too weake to see the lightfull Iove that ruleth all with right. 1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iv. Captaines 199 The lightful ark, God's sacred cabinet. 1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 348 Chrystall becomes lightfull without softning it's hardnesse. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 526 What in the Body of the Lord can be more lightful than those five Wounds? 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 164 The hall within was lightful and airy.
Hence ˈlightfulness.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1622) 265 No more then the Sunne wants waxe to bee the fewell of his glorious lightfulnesse. 1587Golding De Mornay vi. (1617) 78 He calleth him the First beginner, Lightfulnesse, or altogether Light. 1839Bailey Festus xxv. (1848) 313 Watery lightfulness of ghostly eyes. |