
Nimbleness; agility.[From French légèreté, from léger (light), from Vulgar Latin leviarius, from Latin levis (light).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=legerity
"I began to follow at the same rate, but immediately slackened speed for fear that Watts-Dunton behind us might be embittered at sight of so much youth and legerity." Henry Maximilian Beerbohm; No. 2 The Pines; 1914.This week's theme: miscellaneous words.
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