Noctivagant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /nɒkˈtɪvəɡənt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Noctivagant is an adjective meaning Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering.
Meaning
Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering.
More Meanings
- One who goes walking by night.
Example Sentences
Unhappily, we lost the big fellow, Smirke, to noctivagant predators some days back […]
[…] 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."
"Not merely nocturnal but noctivagant, a nightwalker, a prowler, a nomad of the midnight streets, attempting to abolish the distinction between the light that comes from outside and the sort that shines within."
Word Forms
- noctivagants
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nightwandering, noctambulant, somnambulant, deambulatory, benighted, vagabonding.
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