What does noctivagant mean?
Noctivagant means Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering..
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/nɒkˈtɪvəɡənt/ · adjective
Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering..
[…] 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."
Unhappily, we lost the big fellow, Smirke, to noctivagant predators some days back […]
"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."
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Noctivagant means Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering..
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[…] I therefore think, Sarah, that the incommensurability of the crime with the effect, completely warrants the supersaliency of this noctivagant delinquent.
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