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lightened | lightness |

As a verb lightened

is (lighten).

As a noun lightness is

(uncountable) the condition of being illuminated or lightness can be the state of having little weight, or little force.

lightened

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lighten)

    • lighten

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
  • To make light or lighter in weight.
  • To make less serious or more cheerful.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxxiv. 5
    • They looked unto him, were lightened .
  • To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
    • to lighten''' an apartment with lamps or gas; to '''lighten the streets
  • * Dryden
    • A key of fire ran all along the shore, / And lightened all the river with a blaze.
  • To become light or lighter in weight.
  • To become less serious or more cheerful.
  • To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
  • To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to flash.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This dreadful night, / That thunders, lightens , opens graves, and roars / As doth the lion.
  • To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His eye lightens forth / Controlling majesty.
  • To descend; to light.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us.
  • To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
  • * Sir J. Davies
    • Lighten my spirit with one clear heavenly ray.

    Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    Derived terms

    * lighten up

    lightness

    English

    Etymology 1

    from light, the noun

    Noun

  • (uncountable) the condition of being illuminated
  • (uncountable) the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour
  • (countable) The product of being illuminated.

    • Etymology 2

    From (light), the adjective.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of having little weight, or little force.
  • Agility of movement.
  • Freedom from worry.
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, page=266, title= Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion
    • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • Levity, frivolity; inconsistency.
  • *, New York 2001, p.75:
    • Senecaaccounts it a filthy lightness in men, every day to lay new foundations of their life, but who doth otherwise?

    Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -ness