Corinthian spirit
nounEtymology
From Corinthian (“of a sporting event: restricted to gentleman amateurs”).
Definitions
An especially high standard of sportsmanship.
- Another thing the Association fostered, he thought, was the Old Boy spirit -- the Corinthian spirit -- and one way in which that was done was through sport.
- It would be an injustice, however, to regard Pegasus as simply a late flowering of the Corinthian spirit, a throwback to an era of elite amateurism
Amateurism, originally in yachting.
- [A] farmer living on Lake Ontario ... was seized with the Corinthian spirit after reading some articles on boating. The farmer wrote: A neighbor and myself built a boat for instruction and amusement ...
- An enthusiastic yachtsman, he, in true Corinthian spirit, worked his little craft himself ...
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA