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vagrance

vagrance noun: vagrancy, wandering.

Noun

vagrance (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Vagrancy, wandering.
    • […] but as they have wavering and straying mindes, so they will have wandering and unstaid bodies, which will sooner be disposed to vagrance than activitie, to idlenesse than to worke.1601, John Legat, printer to the University of Cambridge (publisher), Ease for Overseers of the Poore: Abstracted from the Statutes...
    • Locke […] urged the necessity of a trade to men of all ranks and professions, that when the mind is weary with its proper task, it may be relaxed by a slighter attention to some mechanical operation; and that while the vital functions are resuscitated and awakened by vigorous motion, the...1801, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Rambler_(1))

Questions about vagrance

What does vagrance mean?
Vagrance means vagrancy, wandering.
What part of speech is vagrance?
Vagrance is a noun.

Words near vagrance in the dictionary

  1. vagotonias
  2. vagotonic
  3. vagotropic
  4. vagous
  5. vagovagal
  6. vagrance
  7. vagrancies
  8. vagrancy
  9. vagrant
  10. vagrantise
  11. vagrantised

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