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1828 Definition

LIGHTLY, adv. li'tely.

1. With little weight; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.

2. Without deep impression.

The soft ideas of the cheerful note, lightly received, were easily forgot.

3. Easily; readily; without difficulty; of course.

4. Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.

Flatter not the rich, neither do thou willingly or lightly appear before great personages.

5. Without dejection; cheerfully.

Bid that welcome which comes to punish us, and we punish it, seeming to bear it lightly.

6. Not chastely; wantonly.

7. Nimbly; with agility; not heavily or tardily.

He led me lightly o'er the stream.

8. Gaily; airily; with levity; without heed or care.
1913 Definition
Lightly (lightly)
adv.
Light"ly
  1. With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly.

    Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest,
    And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast.
    Pope.

    Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear
    Touched lightly.
    Milton.

  2. Swiftly; nimbly; with agility.

    So mikle was that barge, it might not lightly sail. R. of Brunne.

    Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word. Tennyson.

  3. Without deep impression.

    The soft ideas of the cheerful note,
    Lightly received, were easily forgot.
    Prior.

  4. In a small degree; slightly; not severely.

    At the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun . . . and afterward did more grievously afflict her. Is. ix. 1.

  5. With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily.

    That lightly come, shall lightly go. Old Proverb.

    They come lightly by the malt, and need not spare it. Sir W. Scott.

  6. Without reason, or for reasons of little weight.

    Flatter not the rich, neither do thou willingly or lightly appear before great personages. Jer. Taylor.

  7. Commonly; usually.
    [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

    The great thieves of a state are lightly the officers of the crown. B. Jonson.

  8. Without dejection; cheerfully.
    "Seeming to bear it lightly." Shak.
  9. Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily.

    Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.].

  10. Not chastely; wantonly.
    Swift.

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When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.
 History of the United States :: 1832 




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