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Definition of Disportment
1. n. Act of disporting; diversion; play.
Definition of Disportment
1. Noun. (obsolete) Act of disporting; diversion; play. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disportment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disportment
Literary usage of Disportment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bird Watching by Edmund Selous (1901)
"But, besides this, these birds have another and most charming nuptial disportment.
Sitting a deux in some high tree, one of them will every now and again ..."
2. Indianland and Wonderland: Once Roamed by the Savage Indian and the Shaggy by Olin Dunbar Wheeler (1894)
"It propels an enormous volume of water into the air, and from the fountain-like
character of its disportment it takes its name. The basin of the Fountain ..."
3. Lectures on the History of English Literature by William Marvel Nevin (1895)
"... oppressed by their domineering land-holders, that these two natural qualities
of their race have been allowed to have their full and free disportment. ..."
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