Meaning of sprightlie | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of sprightly.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Next vnto lumpish Saturn, sprightlie Iove / Moves in his orbe.”

“[B]y the Path-way green, / A ſprightlie Troupe ſtill onward heedleſſe ſped, / In Chace of Butterflies alert and keen; / Honours, and Wealth, and Powre, their Butterflies I ween.”

“This youth was ance a sprightlie boy / As ever lived in Linne.”

“Methinkes it was aboutt this Date that a ſore Afflicſhon befelle my deare and formerlie merrie Siſter, the Ladye Herbert, whom my Reder will beſte recollecte as my Ladye Mother's beſte beloved Childe, the happie, ſprightlie Katie of oure School-den Daies.”

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