a. Obs. [f. FLIGHT sb. + -FUL.]
1. Fleeting, transitory, fugitive.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xxx. 7. His owne flightfull and tottering felicitie. Ibid. (1587), De Mornay xxvii. (1617), 479. The father [say they] reioyceth for his Sonnes welfare: yet is that but a light and flightfull ioy, and who is hee that wilbe moued for the afterspring of his children that are long hence to come?
2. Producing flight; cowardly.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., XIII. (1626), 254.
| And is Vlysses my Competitor? | |
| Whose flightfull feare did Hector’s flames abhor. |
3. Well-adapted for flight.
1580. Sidney, Ps. CXXXIX. v.
| O Sun, whome light nor flight can match, | |
| Suppose thy lightfull flightfull wings | |
| Thou lend to me. |
