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Date:Tue, 19 Mar 2002 01:09:35 -0800 (PST)

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Word of the Day for Tuesday March 19, 2002:

levity \LEV-uh-tee\, noun:
1. Lightness of manner or speech, especially when
inappropriate or excessive; frivolity.
2. Lack of steadiness or constancy; changeableness.

They sat there in their formal bargeman's rig... looking
solemn: they were part of a ceremony, and levity, winking,
whispering, smiling, had no place in it.
--Patrick O'Brian, [1]The Hundred Days

I must say that if the doctor was indulging in levity at my
expense, it is a levity I find in the worst possible taste.
--Alfred Alcorn, Murder in the Museum of Man
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Levity is from Latin levitas, from levis, "light."

References

1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393319792/ref%3Dnosim/lexico


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