itinerancy
Americannoun
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the act of traveling from place to place.
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a going around from place to place in the discharge of duty or the conducting of business.
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a body of itinerants, as ministers, judges, or sales representatives.
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the state of being itinerant.
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the system of rotation governing the ministry of the Methodist Church.
noun
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the act of itinerating
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Methodist Church the system of appointing a minister to a circuit of churches or chapels
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itinerants collectively
Etymology
Origin of itinerancy
First recorded in 1780–90; itiner(ant) + -ancy
Example Sentences
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Some of them had accompanied her throughout a lifetime of itinerancy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“In other words, defendant has a history of itinerancy, firearms possession, and lack of candor with law enforcement, all exacerbating his risk of flight,” Lasher wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Rings of luggage encircling empty carousels in Chicago, in a kind of artistic commentary on capitalism and modern itinerancy.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022
And yet the very skills gay people had to develop to survive — studiousness, compartmentalization, discretion, itinerancy — made them uniquely skilled, Kirchick points out, to sensitive tasks like espionage or high-level advising.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2022
But the worst effect of the itinerancy upon its ministers' wives is the evil information they must receive in it about other people.
From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris
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