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▪ I. lightsomeness1|ˈlaɪtsəmnɪs|
[f. lightsome a.1 + -ness.]
The quality of being lightsome or not heavy; † easiness (obs.), liveliness, cheerfulness, etc.
c1440Promp. Parv. 304/2 Lyghtesumnesse, or esynesse, facilitas. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 154 By lightsomnesse or heauinesse in learning, by easinesse or hardnesse in retaining. 1617J. Moore Mappe Mans Mortalitie ii. vii. 148 Though the heavy burden of our sinfull flesh doe load vs, yet lightsomnesse it is to a Christian to thinke that the way is not long. 1632tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 200 There is no paine, but rather a lightsomnes of the body. 1668G. C. in H. More Div. Dial. Pref. (1713) vi, That versatility of Wit, and lightsomeness of Humour. 1829Westm. Rev. X. 428 The ‘Misfortunes of Elphin’..lacks lightsomeness, grace, and invention. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 138 Drayton..had an agreeable lightsomeness of fancy. 1880J. Fothergill Wellfields III. xi. 250 She..was astonished at the sudden lightsomeness of heart which she felt. 1885Pater Marius the Epicur. II. 69 Dainty as that old divinely constructed armour of which Homer speaks, but without its miraculous lightsomeness.
▪ II. lightsomeness2|ˈlaɪtsəmnɪs|
[f. lightsome a.2 + -ness.]
The quality of being lightsome, luminous, or well-lighted; brightness; † clearness.
c1440Promp. Parv. 304/2 Lyghtesumnesse, luminositas. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 583/1 The faith is not ordinarily with..open, ineuitable, and invincible lyghtsomenesse inspired into the soule. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 182 b, Spoken..with a farre more playne lightsomnesse by our expositors. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. iii. xvi, A darksome place with lightsomnes to fill. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely i. iv. 170 Paul..was dazeled with the exceeding lightsomenesse. 1754Edwards Freed. Will iv. ix. (1762) 259 The Sun's being the Cause of the Lightsomeness and Warmth of the Atmosphere. 1791Bentham Panopt. i. 14 Airiness, lightsomeness, economy..are the evident results. 1892MacLaren Paul's Prayers etc. 173 There are some of you, grovelling down at the bottom of the ocean, to whom..the lightness and lighsomeness of the pure life..would seem miraculous. |