| 释义 |
ˈsportfulness Now rare.
[f. as prec.]
The quality or state of being sportful; sportiveness.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 65 So as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnes, is by their mungrell Tragy-comedie obtained. a1631Donne Let. Wks. (1633) 371 When sadnesse dejects me,..I kindle squibs about mee againe, and flie into sportfulnesse and company. 1667H. More Div. Dial. ii. xiii. (1713) 126 The birth of Monsters; which I look upon but as a piece of Sportfulness in the order of things. 1710R. Ward Life H. More 48 It is hard to represent the Wit, Reason, Zeal, Phancy, Sportfulness, and Seriousness,..there is contain'd in this Writing. 1780Mirror No. 100, A sportfulness of external behaviour. 1831Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1888) III. 98 Majesty rather than grace, still more than lightness or sportfulness, characterises him. 1898Christian Herald (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 24/1 That which opened in sportfulness ended in violence. |