disportment
English
Etymology
Noun
disportment (countable and uncountable, plural disportments)
- (obsolete) Act of disporting; fun or play.
- 1660, H[enry] More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for W[illiam] Morden […], →OCLC:
- These young girles, the Nymphs of Diana, called and carried away the old Wizzard to the enjoyment of those disportments and pleasures that such ludicrous Spirits, together with old Hags and others of the fraternity, use to make with one another
References
- “disportment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.