Read full poem →Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
This erring mortals Levity may call;
Oh blind to truth! the Sylphs contrive it all.
Dictionary Entry
Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
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Common Phrases
. levitylevity much
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Poetry examples for “levity”
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Read full poem →Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.
This erring mortals levity may call,
Oh, blind to truth! the Sylphs contrive it all.
Read full poem →And yet to this day, O Voltaire,
They charge you with levity, scoffing, when all that you did
Was to plough up the quack grass, and turn up the roots to the sun,
Read full poem →The martyred humor, and the maimed allure,
Cry out for time to end his levity,
And age to soften its investiture;
Read full poem →this remark, to rescue himself from the charge of having
alluded with levity to a line in Milton: a charge than which
none could be more painful to him, except perhaps that of
Read full poem →this remark, to rescue himself from the charge of having
alluded with levity to a line in Milton: a charge than which
none could be more painful to him, except perhaps that of