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Definition of Sportfully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sportfully
Literary usage of Sportfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compendious History of the British Churches in England, Scotland, Ireland by John Brown (1823)
"Multitudes they sportfully drowned, banged, or stabbed to death, even after they had
... Others they shut up in houses, and sportfully burnt them in them; ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"But tell me, since they bit thee not, but sportfully licked thee, what harm?'
— 'What harm, noodle ? why, the sores came off.' —' How could that be ? ..."
3. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1905)
"... bodily and spiritual (something of real insanity, I have understood), and yet
something, too, of humane, ingenuous, pathetic, sportfully much-enduring. ..."
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