Meaning of Sportiveness | Babel Free

Definitions

the state of being sportive

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“You will see⟳ the tame horse in the paddock gallop about for his pleasure, and the wild horse on the prairie will start⟳ and run⟳ for miles in mere sportiveness.”

“Then he would play⟳ with his vixen, she encouraging him with her pretty sportiveness.”

“OMAR KHAYYAM, astronomer-poet of Persia, born at Naishapur, in Khorassan; lived in the later half of the 11th century, and died in the first quarter of the 12th; wrote a collection of poems which breathe⟳ an Epicurean spirit, and while they occupy⟳ themselves with serious problems of life, do so with careless sportiveness, intent he on the enjoyment of the sensuous pleasures of life, like⟳ an easy-going Epicurean.”

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