wayfaring

[ wey-fair-ing ]

adjective

1. traveling, especially on foot.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wayfaring¹

First recorded in 1530–40; way ¹ + fare + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

An artistic mystery combined with an active memory created Wayfaring Stranger.

From The Daily Beast

Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them?

From Project Gutenberg

Is not your style so simple, frank, and direct that a wayfaring girl can read it and not err therein?

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At mid-day, after talk and a little wayfaring, they slept; meeting the world refreshed when the air was cooler.

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The afternoon previous to the accident, a wayfaring man had overtaken the herd, and spent the night with the trail outfit.

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Meanwhile Erginus, with seven youths dressed as wayfaring men, made his way up to the gate unsuspected.

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