Disporting

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of one who disports.

    "I must fain resign all poetic disportings of the fancy, and pursue my narrative in humble prose."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of disport form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"While they were thus disporting and enjoying themselves, an old man, clothed in a coarse garment of goatskin, with shabby shoes on his feet, and with a bag of provisions at his back, came up to them and seated himself near them."

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