Sprightlie

Quick meaning: Sprightlie is an adjective meaning Obsolete spelling of sprightly.

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of sprightly.

Example Sentences

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

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

[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.

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.

Word Forms

• sprightlier
• sprightliest

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spightful, sleighty, splenetick, slie, joviall, splenish.

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