?1510 T. More tr. G. F. Pico della Mirandola Lyfe I. Picus sig. b.v The same thing also in his boke which he entitled de ente et vno lightsomely he treteth.

1570 A. Golding tr. D. Chytræus Postil 393 Paule expoundeth very lightsomly the promis made to Abraham concerning the seede.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 381 Gods fauour shining more lightsomly had scattered away the clouds of contention.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 23 It is not as yet..made lightsomely famous.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. E.iii Marke a man that taketh weapon in hande: [y]f goyng about to cast a darte, or houldyng in hys hand a sworde..he setleth hym self lightsomely (not thinking vpon it) in a ready aptnesse.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues iii. xvi. 195 Though the Phancy of Cuphophron may seem more than ordinarily ludibund and lightsomely sportfull.

1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. Introd. 62 Bugles ringing lightsomely.

1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. ix. 131 I perceive a flock of snow birds, skimming lightsomely through the tempest.

1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) iii. 88 They now most lightsomely live in that happiness to which there comes no end.

1978 M. F. K. Fisher Considerable Town i. 17 At the land's-end of the Port,..new but lightsomely majestic, rises Longchamps.

2012 Arts & Bk. Rev. (Nexis) 17 Nov. 70 A taste for Murillo, so saccharine, sweet and lightsomely cheerful by comparison.