What does peregrinity mean?
Peregrinity means The quality of being foreign or strange..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The quality of being foreign or strange..
It will be correct, that is, free from faults, if the tongue bee loose, articulate, sweet, and polite: that is, in which no tone of rusticity or peregrinity is discoverable.
somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect
The future translator is exhorted to consult his author's manner, to copy his air and gesture, and to preserve the 'very fashion, simple or splendid, of his garb, with the exception only of such arts of it, as are stamped with idiotism or with peregrinity.'
This pert censor has not the presumption to quarrel with the neutralizing of foreign words, the discreet adoption of which adds opulence and ornament to our language, but (as she loves to sin in the very act of censure, and as the greatest rogue always turns King's evidence) she laments the peregrinity of style, the foreign fabrication of sentences, which is wearing away the beauty, diluting the spirit, and diminishing the force of our tongue.
Peregrinity! peregrinity! come back, Imgar, and conduct us down in Hindoodum, where alligators thrive.
The new xenophobia is thus a collective psychological response to peregrinity.
There were different grades of peregrinity, however, as socii in general; socii nominis Latini; dedititii; yet they could attain to individual privileges, as, for instance, those of connubium (Liv. xxxi . 31.).
Eucrates mentioned in the next line, was an Athenian general, noted for corrupt practices, treachery, and peregrinity.
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Peregrinity means The quality of being foreign or strange..
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It will be correct, that is, free from faults, if the tongue bee loose, articulate, sweet, and polite: that is, in which no tone of rusticity or peregrinity is discoverable.
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