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vagrantism

noun

Etymology

From vagrant + -ism.

  1. derived from *walg-✻
  2. inherited from *walkōną✻ — “to roll about, wallow; to full”
  3. derived from *walkrōn✻ — “to wander about”
  4. derived from vagārī
  5. derived from walcrant
  6. derived from vagarant
  7. inherited from vagraunt — “person without proper employment; person without a fixed abode, tramp, vagabond”
  8. suffixed as vagrantism — “vagrant + ism”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being a vagrant.

    • Here was instruction given to those who were as yet not tainted with vagrantism, by those who were well versed in those things; here they asked questions how to get into this Union, or that Workhouse—what to say, what time to go, &c.
    • We have spoken hesitatingly of the prospect of repressing tendencies to vagrantism resident in the temperamental conditions of the individual.

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