a. Having a light or trifling mind; frivolous. Hence Light-mindedness.
1611. Bible, Eccl. xix. 4. He that is hasty to giue credit is light minded.
1661. G. Rust, Origen, in Phenix (1721), I. 24. Tossed about like feathers with light-mindedness and admiration of trifles.
1833. J. H. Newman, Arians, V. ii. (1876), 387. The light-minded multitude clamorously required it.
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Solit., ix. 120. Among the light-minded men and women who make up society.
1884. H. Gersoni, trans. Turgenieff’s Diary Superfluous Man, 26 March, 92. The sad consequences of light-mindedness.
