gamesmanship = 'sportsmanship'

[Jonathan Lighter]

2002 Ruth Glancy _Thematic Guide to British Poetry_ (Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press) 265: The famous old expression that the Battle of Waterloo
was won on the playing fields of Eton summed up the long-held belief that
the principles of gamesmanship and good manners taught in the schools of
young gentlemen were all that were needed to defeat the barbarous enemy.

The association of "gamesmanship" with "good manners" and "young gentlemen"
in opposition to the "barbarous enemy,"  as well as the general context of
the passage, scotches the idea that what's meant is the usual sense of
"gamesmanship."

In 2002  Prof. Glancy was Associate Professor of English at Concordia
University in Alberta.

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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