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vagrancy

[ vey-gruhn-see ]

noun

, plural va·gran·cies.
  1. the state or condition of being a vagrant:

    an arrest for vagrancy.

  2. the conduct of a vagrant.
  3. mental wandering; reverie.


vagrancy

/ ˈveɪɡrənsɪ /

noun

  1. the state or condition of being a vagrant
  2. the conduct or mode of living of a vagrant
“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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Other Words From

  • non·vagran·cy noun plural nonvagrancies
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vagrancy1

First recorded in 1635–45; vagr(ant) + -ancy
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Example Sentences

He was charged with vagrancy instead and sentenced to six months in jail.

Vagrancy, with its great evils, would have been prevented, and the passing of the Poor laws would have been unnecessary.

We are meditating flight to Italy when my present work is done, as our last bit of vagrancy for a long, long while.

In the records of the Middle Ages enactments for the suppression and ordering of vagrancy continually occur.

Grif was stronger now, and having relapsed into vagrancy, felt himself at liberty to indulge his organ of combativeness.

And then I think of the strange and winding paths, the weary roads he has traveled from that mother's arms to vagrancy and want.

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