noctivagant
adj/nɒkˈtɪvəɡənt/UK/nɑkˈtɪvəɡənt/US
Etymology
From Late Latin noctivagans, from noctivagare, from Latin nocti- (“night”) + participle form of vagari (“to wander”).
- derived from noctivagans
Definitions
Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering.
- […] I therefore think, Sarah, that the incommensurability of the crime with the effect, completely warrants the supersaliency of this noctivagant delinquent.
- "Over the city, the suburb, the slum / He rambled from pillar to post, / And backward and forward, observant, though dumb, / As a fleetly noctivagant ghost."
- Unhappily, we lost the big fellow, Smirke, to noctivagant predators some days back […]
One who goes walking by night.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA