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ˈsportfully, adv. Now rare.
[f. prec.]
In a sportful manner; in sport; jestingly; sportively.
a1568Sidney Arcadia iii. xvii. (1912) 452 And [this] un⁓fathered Lady could sportfully put on the Lions skin upon her owne fair shoulders. 1632G. Herbert Priest Temple ix, He..talks..also in a serious manner, never jestingly, or sportfully. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life ii. iii. 130 Now there is nothing more surprising..than to see or hear a serious thing sportfully represented. 1782J. Brown Nat. & Rev. Relig. vi. i. (1796) 447 This commandment forbids..our profaning and abusing his name..in angrily or sportfully cursing. 1831Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1888) III. 179 Nor in his satire does he ever lose pleasure but rebukes sportfully. |