vagrancy
pronunciation
How to pronounce vagrancy in British English:
UK [ˈveɪgrənsi]
How to pronounce vagrancy in American English:
US [ˈveɡrənsi]
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- Noun:
- the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood
Word Origin
- vagrancy (n.)
- "life of idle begging," 1706, from vagrant + -cy. Earlier in a figurative sense, "mental wandering" (1640s). By late 18c. used in law as a catch-all for miscellaneous petty offenses against public order.
Example
- 1. I don 't want you to be arrested for vagrancy .
- 2. He was charged with vagrancy .
- 3. He got deported for vagrancy .
- 4. The most common arrests are for loitering , vagrancy or drug use or possession .
- 5. Under the pseudonym boz , he wrote , " there is nothing we enjoy more than a little amateur vagrancy , " walking through london as though " the whole were an unknown region to our wandering mind . "