disporting
English
Verb
disporting
- present participle and gerund of disport
Noun
disporting (plural disportings)
- The act of one who disports.
- 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:
- I must fain resign all poetic disportings of the fancy, and pursue my narrative in humble prose.