Vagrancy
['veɪgr(ə)nsɪ] or ['veɡrənsi]
Definition
(noun.) the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood.
Checker: Wade--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Editor: Vicky
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Roving, wandering.
Editor: Matt
Examples
- With so much time to talk, and no definite object to be led up to, she could taste the rare joys of mental vagrancy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- We talk of poverty and forget poor people; we make rules for vagrancy--we forget the vagrant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I allow you all the force of your joke upon the vagrancy of our Congress. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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