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Definition of Levities
1. levity [n] - See also: levity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Levities
Literary usage of Levities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cobbett's Political Registerby William Cobbett by William Cobbett (1806)
"lam not the first, and I shall- net be the last," is the seff-consoling remark
of every girl, whose " levities," in the long run, compel her to appear ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1785)
"... levities, a. Comedy in jive Ails. As it is miv performing at the Theatre Royal,
... levities' of the ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"She neither smiled when he was witty, nor looked shocked at his levities.
Only once, when, by a direct appeal to her, silence was impossible, she said, ..."
4. Eminent British Statesmen by James Mackintosh, John Forster, John Macdiarmid, Thomas Peregrine Courtenay (1831)
"... against good morals, which were not cognizable by the law, but actually extended
his office of censor to levities of conduct and matters of conscience. ..."
5. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"levities: OR, PIECES OF HUMOUR, FLIRT AND PHIL: A DECISION FOR THE LADIES.
A WIT, by learning well refined, A beau, but of the rural kind, To Silvia made ..."
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