blithe

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BLITHE, adjective [Latin loetus; Eng. glad. See Bliss and glad.] Gay; merry; joyous; sprightly; mirthful. For that fair female troop thou sawest, that seemed Of goddesses, so blithe so smooth, so gay.
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