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vagrantly

adv

Etymology

From vagrant + -ly.

  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 vagrantly — “vagrant + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a vagrant manner.

    • […] they understand [liberty] to mean nothing more than exemption from labour, and permission to leave the glebe to which they are confined, and wander vagrantly, like loosened cattle, into other pastures.

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