light-headedly


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Adv.1.light-headedly - in a giddy light-headed manner; "he walked around dizzily"
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I ran to the house in Soho, and (to make assurance doubly sure) destroyed my papers; thence I set out through the lamplit streets, in the same divided ecstasy of mind, gloating on my crime, light-headedly devising others in the future, and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake for the steps of the avenger.
Aided by my many-pinted comforte now, I shut my eyes for a spelle and forced down my apprehensyon and alarmum, thinkynge to myself that a paranoia was really starting to get the beste of me, that really this was all quite silly, a fantasy (for after all, certainlye, in London there are any number of men with such rings!), and I didn't say anythynge of it to Martin as we walked light-headedly through the elegant leafy streets of Hampstead, past the great Dada-artist John Heartfield's old house and the house of John Constable and the house of Dame Edith Sitwell, amonge otheres.
Does that priest really think women have abortions light- heartedly or light-headedly?