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ˈsportiveness
[f. as prec.]
The fact, quality, or condition of being sportive.
1601R. Yarington Two Traj. iii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Pick out mens eyes, and tell them thats the sport Of hood-man⁓blinde, without all sportiveness. 1653Walton Angler i, Shall I conclude her simple, that has her time to begin, or refuse sportiveness as freely as I myself have? 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 95 The virgin mother's looks most exquisitely express her sweet complacency at their innocent sportiveness. 1779Mirror No. 2, In the first character I may sometimes indulge a sportiveness to which I am a stranger in the latter. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xviii, Some very pretty sportiveness ensued. 1858Doran Court Fools 132 The warrant being drawn up in sportiveness, he signed the document. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 223 The young of all creatures..are always..overflowing with sportiveness and delight at something. |