lightsomeness

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As I have said, the key of the color-scheme has a direct emotional effect, so adding to the power and dignity or the grace and lightsomeness of the composition.

From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Parkhurst, Daniel Burleigh

There was no lightsomeness of spirit in the Mallison household to ease the strain of small duties, or turn a contretemps into a joke.

From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The footsteps above were distinguishable, though it was manifest that they moved with lightsomeness and circumspection.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

Couldst thou not stamp thy joy upon the page, That they who should come after thee might feel Their spirits gladdened by it, and their hearts Made lighter with thy lightsomeness?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Mallarmé plunged his verses into a secret darkness of symbols, until the words with their subterranean meaning almost became unintelligible, while Verlaine gave his lines the dream-rapt lightsomeness of a music never heard before.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan