Today’s Words That Work: Disport

By | Wed, Nov 24, 2010

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Disport (dis-SPORT) — from the French for “to carry” — is to divert or amuse oneself; to display oneself in a playful manner.

Example (as used by Robertson Davies in A Voice From the Attic): “But the temptation to wallow and disport myself in the purple prose of the doting collector is strong, and it will need all my vigilance to resist it.”

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