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Definition of Lightnesses
1. lightness [n] - See also: lightness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightnesses
Literary usage of Lightnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (1902)
"Kate had remained in the window, very handsome and upright, the outer dark framing
in a highly favourable way her summery simplicities and lightnesses of ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... that represented the Sports and pretty Lightnesses, that accompany Love."
Cupid gives the order to his "little jocund Sports"—"with your revel fill the ..."
3. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"“If suddenly,” says Mr. Ruskin, “in the midst of the enjoyments of the palate
and lightnesses of heart of a London dinner-party, the walls of the chamber ..."
4. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... "the Sports and pretty Lightnesses that accom- The Masque ef pany Love," a
superb Epithalamion.2 In February, ,e. l6°9i was acted The Masque of Queens, ..."
5. Some Longer Elizabethan Poems by Arthur Henry Bullen (1903)
"... that represented the sports and pretty lightnesses that accompany LOVE, under
the titles of Joci and ..."
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