passtime

passtime (plural passtimes)

1. Obsolete spelling of pastime
   • 1818, Whale, John; Blades, John, quoting Keats, John, “Letter to George Keats”, in John Keats, Macmillan International Higher Education, published 2004, →ISBN, page 26:

     You will by this time think I am in love with her; so before I go any further I will tell you I am not — she kept me awake one Night as a tune of Mozart's might do — I speak of the thing as a passtime and an amuzement than which I can feel none deeper than a conversation with an imperial woman the very ‘yes’ and ‘no’ of whose Lips is to me a Banquet.

   • 1876 July 1, McLean, S. D., “Sketches from Tennessee—Bee Culture”, in Moon's Bee World, volume 3, number 8, latter dated May 30, '76, page 237:

     Some engage in bee culture for the pleasure it affords them as a passtime; others as a means of furnishing their own tables with one of natures richest luxuries, while others engage in it as an occupation for the dollars and cents that may realize from it.

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