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English
Etymology
From Middle English passe tyme, calque of Middle French passe-temps.
Noun
passtime (plural passtimes)
- Obsolete spelling of pastime.
1818, John Whale, John Blades, 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, S. D. McLean, “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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