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vagrantism

vagrantism noun: the condition of being a vagrant.

Noun

vagrantism (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being a vagrant.
    • 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.1853, Motives for Missions. A series of six lectures delivered before the Church of England Young Men's Society in the Autumn of 1852, page 40
    • We have spoken hesitatingly of the prospect of repressing tendencies to vagrantism resident in the temperamental conditions of the individual.1877 October, C.C. Lord, “Tramps”, in The Granite Monthly, volume 1, number 6, page 166

Origin of vagrantism

From vagrant + -ism.

Questions about vagrantism

What does vagrantism mean?
Vagrantism means the condition of being a vagrant.
What part of speech is vagrantism?
Vagrantism is a noun.

Words near vagrantism in the dictionary

  1. vagrant
  2. vagrantise
  3. vagrantised
  4. vagrantises
  5. vagrantising
  6. vagrantism
  7. vagrantize
  8. vagrantized
  9. vagrantizes
  10. vagrantizing
  11. vagrantlike

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