"Unlightsome" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... save 'delightsome' are gone; and that, although used in our Authorized Version (Mal. iii, 12), is now only employed in poetry. So too 'mightsome' (see Coleridge's Glossary), 'brightsome' (Marlowe), 'wieldsome', and 'unwieldsome' (Golding), 'unlightsome' (Milton), 'healthsome' (Homilies), 'ugsome' and 'ugglesome' (both in Foxe), 'laboursome' (Shakespeare), 'friendsome', 'longsome' (Bacon), 'quietsome', 'mirksome' (both in Spenser), 'toothsome' (Beaumont and Fletcher), 'gleesome', 'joysome' (both in Browne's Pastorals), ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench |
