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peregrinities

peregrinities is the plural of peregrinity.

Meaning of peregrinity

Noun

peregrinity (countable and uncountable, plural peregrinities)

  1. 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.1774, J. Patsall Quintilian, Quintilian's Institutes of the Orator: In Twelve Books, page 315
  2. (historical) The status of being a non-citizen in Ancient Rome.
    • 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.).1836, Thomas Swinburne Carr, A Manual of Roman Antiquities, page 175
  3. Travel; wandering.
    • A new removal, what we call 'his third peregrinity,' had to be decided on; and it was resolved that Rome should be the goal of it[.]1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Questions about peregrinities

What is peregrinities the plural of?
Peregrinities is the plural of peregrinity.

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