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itinerancy

[ ahy-tin-er-uhn-see, ih-tin- ]

noun

  1. the act of traveling from place to place.
  2. a going around from place to place in the discharge of duty or the conducting of business.
  3. a body of itinerants, as ministers, judges, or sales representatives.
  4. the state of being itinerant.
  5. the system of rotation governing the ministry of the Methodist Church.


itinerancy

/ ɪˈtɪnərənsɪ; aɪ- /

noun

  1. the act of itinerating
  2. Methodist Church the system of appointing a minister to a circuit of churches or chapels
  3. itinerants collectively
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of itinerancy1

First recorded in 1780–90; itiner(ant) + -ancy
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Example Sentences

After a brief season of itinerancy through Massachusetts pulpits, he is settled at West Roxbury.

He said when the Methodists abolished itinerancy and mission work, he thought the most useful part of the church was gone.

It has been a pleasure to the writer to make this record, as also that of other veterans of the Itinerancy.

Students came and went, and the teachers were a part of a great itinerancy.

An itinerancy implies central and local management, and travelling lecturers who connect the two.

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