Wanderer

[ won-der-er ]
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nounScottish History.
  1. a Covenanter persecuted by Charles II and James II, especially one who fled home to follow rebellious Presbyterian ministers who refused to accept episcopacy.

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How to use Wanderer in a sentence

  • My God will cast them away, because they hearkened not to him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

  • In the apes and lemurs, on the contrary, the ground-dwellers are the aberrant forms, stray wanderers from the host.

    Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
  • It was quite dusk with the wanderers before they reached a point where the San Juan once more flowed with an undisturbed current.

    Overland | John William De Forest
  • The Maruts who with the golden tires of their wheels increase the rain, stir up the clouds like wanderers on the road.

  • The Wizard told them of the misfortune that had overtaken the wanderers.