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LIGHTLY, adv.
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.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Lightly'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/lightly.html.
Entry for 'Lightly'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/l/lightly.html.
