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▪ I. diˈsporting, vbl. n.
[f. disport v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb disport; diversion, amusement; sportive action, gambolling.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. B, Their accustomed trade of disportinge and ordinary recreations. 1593T. Watson Tears of Fancie xxvi. Poems (Arb.) 191 It pleasd my Mistris once to take the aire Amid the vale of loue for her disporting. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. ii. iv. (1849) 102, I must fain resign all poetic disportings of the fancy. 1887L. Oliphant Episodes 149 The clumsy disportings of a baby elephant.
▪ II. [disporting
(R., from Prynne), misprint of dispoiling, despoiling in Act 1 Hen. VII. c. 6.
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