vagrancy
noun
the state or condition of being a vagrant.
vagrancies
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pluralof vagrancy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Ah! wild wit, now at last Thy vagrancies are o'er; The ear and gazing eye That you enthrall'd before.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various
Her truancies and vagrancies concerned them not: she was a law to herself, like the birds and squirrels.
From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte
If we would have our hearts calm, we must let Him guide them, sway them, curb their vagrancies, stimulate their desires, and satisfy the desires which He has stimulated.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Perhaps Uncle Contarine continued clement merely because in the nature of things his responsibilities for the vagrancies of his kinsman were inevitably less intimate.
From Oliver Goldsmith by E. S. Lang Buckland
For now he would divert me to another topic and again bring me back to her, so that it all seemed the vagrancies of a boy's inconsequent chatter.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
