Peregrinity
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Peregrinity is a noun meaning The quality of being foreign or strange.
Meaning
The quality of being foreign or strange.
More Meanings
- Travel; wandering.
- (historical) The status of being a non-citizen in Ancient Rome.
Example Sentences
somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect
The new xenophobia is thus a collective psychological response to peregrinity.
Peregrinity! peregrinity! come back, Imgar, and conduct us down in Hindoodum, where alligators thrive.
Eucrates mentioned in the next line, was an Athenian general, noted for corrupt practices, treachery, and peregrinity.
Word Forms
- peregrinities
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include foreignness, exoticity, exoticness, preternaturality, peculiarness, preternaturalness.
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