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levi | levity |

As a proper noun levi

is levi (third son of jacob).

As a noun levity is

lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.

levi

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
  • * 1611 , 35:22b-26 :
    • Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi , and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
  • One of the Biblical tribes of Israelites, descended from Levi; the tribe from which priests were selected.
  • * 1611 , 13:33
    • But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
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    • Derived terms

    * Levite * Levitical * Leviticus

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    levity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity.
  • (obsolete) Lack of steadiness.
  • The state or quality of being light, buoyancy.
  • * F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • * Most of the confidences were unsought - frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation or a hostile levity...
  • * Robert Montgomery Bird:
  • * 1869 Mary Somerville, On Molecular and Microscopic Science 1.1.12:
    • Hydrogen ... rises in the air on account of its levity .
  • (countable) A lighthearted or frivolous act.
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