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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as lightly.

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Examples

  • Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly

    Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • Weel, time gaed by, and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly

    Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

  • Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o 'that black business.

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • 'Mebbe the warl' winna tribble itsel aboot ye sae muckle as e'en to lichtly ye! 'returned his companion quietly.

    Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

  • 'I'll no hae the warl' lichtly (_make light of_) me! 'he said.

    Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864

  • I'll tell the sheyk it would misbecome your father's son to do sic a deed owre lichtly, and strive to gar him wait while I am in these parts to get your word, and nae doot it will be wiselike at the last. '

    A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • -- it 's no to be lichtly believed nor lichtly endured.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

  • Church is mainly attributed to "the dampnable persuasions of heretikis, and thair perversit doctrine," which, it is added, "gevis occasioun to lichtly (or despise) the process of cursing, and uther censures of Haly

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • "Far be it frae me," he said, "to speak lichtly o 'ony ane o' them

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

  • It's a sad peety that ye couldna keep your flesh an 'bluid frae companyin' an 'covenantin' wi 'them that lichtly speak o' the kirk. "

    The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887

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