lit out

verbrun away

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verb run away

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Word Origin & History

"brightness, radiant energy," Old English leht, earlier leoht "light, daylight; luminous, beautiful," from West Germanic *leukhtam (cf. Old Saxon lioht, Old Frisian liacht, Middle Dutch lucht, Dutch licht, Old High German lioht, German Licht, Gothic liuhaþ "light"), from PIE *leuk- "light, brightness" (cf. Sanskrit rocate "shines;" Armenian lois "light," lusin "moon;" Greek leukos "bright, shining, white;" Latin lucere "to shine," lux "light," lucidus "clear;" Old Church Slavonic luci "light;" Lithuanian laukas "pale;" Welsh llug "gleam, glimmer;" Old Irish loche "lightning," luchair "brightness;" Hittite lukezi "is bright").

The -gh- was an Anglo-French scribal attempt to render the Germanic hard -h- sound, which has since disappeared from this word. The figurative spiritual sense was in Old English; the sense of "mental illumination" is first recorded mid-15c. Meaning "something used for igniting" is from 1680s. Meaning "a consideration which puts something in a certain view (e.g. in light of) is from 1680s. Something that's a joy and a delight has been the light of (someone's) eyes since Old English:

To see the light "come into the world" is from 1680s; later in a Christian sense.

Example Sentences for lit out

And he may have lit out into the Western Pacific all of a sudden—say in a trading schooner.

An' when he saw that water piled up, he ought a lit out for home.

Okie lit out from behind the bar and elbowed his way through the crowd.

Anyway, Seattle was too hot to hold him and he lit out and came East.

But the pennies and five-cent pieces were real; he lit out for the village with them.

So then I lit out—for bed, I said, meaning some time or another.

One on 'em up an' licked him one night, an' lit out next day.

He just showed up with these pawn tickets, and then lit out again.

They all seemed to about face' at once, and they lit out of there as if they had been sent for in a hurry.

I lit out from Paris before daylight this morning and here I am.

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