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noctivagation

noctivagation noun: a roving or going about in the night.

Noun

noctivagation (countable and uncountable, plural noctivagations)

  1. A roving or going about in the night.
    • Could he not remember what befel him on the first entrance of his adventures, when this vertigo of noctivagation and watching his arms seized him?1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote
    • It is this really that turns me to these noctivagations.1988, William Brinkley, The Last Ship

Forms of noctivagation

pluralnoctivagations

Questions about noctivagation

What does noctivagation mean?
Noctivagation means a roving or going about in the night.
What part of speech is noctivagation?
Noctivagation is a noun.
What is the plural of noctivagation?
The plural of noctivagation is noctivagations.

Words near noctivagation in the dictionary

  1. noctivagants
  2. noctivagate
  3. noctivagated
  4. noctivagates
  5. noctivagating
  6. noctivagation
  7. noctivagations
  8. noctivagator
  9. noctivagators
  10. noctivagous
  11. noctograph

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