ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Vagrantism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Vagrantism is a noun meaning The condition of being a vagrant.

Meaning

The condition of being a vagrant.

Example Sentences

We have spoken hesitatingly of the prospect of repressing tendencies to vagrantism resident in the temperamental conditions of the individual.
Here was instruction given to those who were as yet not tainted with vagrantism, by those who were well versed in those things; here they asked questions how to get into this Union, or that Workhouse—what to say, what time to go, &c.
No one had ever actually seen him since he'd dropped out while my crew was still in middle school, but rumor had it that he'd been squatting in an abandoned house in Atlanta with a band of gutter punks or otherwise engaged in some form of romanticized vagrantism. I now know that such a lifestyle is actually referred to as homelessness, but at the time, Harley James was a punk-rock god and thus the perfect rebound.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vagrantness, vagabondage, vagarity, nomadity, nomadness, vassality.

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