sportfulness - What does it mean?

Noun

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playfulness

*{{quote-book|year=1894|author=Rev. John Gerardus Fagg|title=Forty Years in South China|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=In long winter nights it was hard to tell who enjoyed sportfulness the better, the children who romped the floor, or the parents who, with lighted countenance, looked at them. }}

*{{quote-book|year=1917|author=Arthur Symons|title=Figures of Several Centuries|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage='Sometimes,' he writes, in a characteristic letter, 'when I find myself transported with jollity and love of company, I hang lead to my heels, and reduce to my thoughts my fortunes, my years, the duties of a man, of a friend, of a husband, of a father, and all the incumbencies of a family; when sadness dejects me, either I countermine it with another sadness, or I kindle squibs about me again, and fly into sportfulness and company.' }}