noctivagant

adj
/nɒkˈtɪvəɡənt/UK/nɑkˈtɪvəɡənt/US

Etymology

From Late Latin noctivagans, from noctivagare, from Latin nocti- (“night”) + participle form of vagari (“to wander”).

  1. derived from noctivagans

Definitions

  1. 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 […]
  2. One who goes walking by night.

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