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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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Entry for 'Lightly'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​l/lightly.html.
 
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