Obs. [f. LIGHT a.1 + -HEAD.] Lightness, folly, levity; an instance of this.

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1340.  Ayenb., 207. Ine zuyche liȝthedes [hi] wasteþ hare time.

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1382.  Wyclif, Jer. iii. 9. Thurȝ liȝthed of hir fornycacioun [she] defoulede the lond.

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c. 1400.  Cato’s Morals, 196. Loke for na liȝthede, at þat þing in ani stide of þe haue blaming.

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