† fugacyn.
Obsolete.
Flight; also, the fact of being a fugitive slave.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > flight or running away
flemeOE
flightc1175
fuge1436
fuite1499
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fugacyc1600
tergiversationa1652
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fugitation1823
skedaddling1863
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > flight or running away > condition of
fugacyc1600
fugacity1656
fugitivity1843
fugitivism1877
c1600 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Cornwall (1728) 2 Upon the fugacie of the conquered Britons.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia iii. iv. 71 All goods and chattels, which being stolne, are left or forsaken by the thiefe in his fugacie.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 15 That earthly City, built up by Cain in the Land of his Banishment, and Fugacy from God.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 261 They were branded to express their fugacy with Φ or F.
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