Meaning of sportfulness | Babel Free

Definitions

playfulness

uncountable

Examples

“In long winter nights it was hard to tell⟳ who enjoyed sportfulness the better, the children who romped the floor, or the parents who, with lighted countenance, looked at them.”

“'Sometimes,' he writes, in a characteristic letter, 'when I find⟳ myself transported with jollity and love⟳ of company, I hang⟳ lead⟳ to my heels, and reduce⟳ to my thoughts my fortunes, my years, the duties of a man, of a friend, of a husband, of a father, and all the incumbencies of a family; when sadness dejects me, either I countermine it with another sadness, or I kindle squibs about me again, and fly⟳ into sportfulness and company.'”

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