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单词 out-straying
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out-strayingn.

Forms: see out- prefix and straying n.; also 1500s outstrainge.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, straying n.
Etymology: < out- prefix + straying n. Compare earlier outstray n., outstray v.
Obsolete.
An act of straying from the right path; a transgression or aberration.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > straying or going astray
vagationc1340
straya1400
outstray?a1425
will gate1440
out-way going1532
straying1548
out-straying1589
aberrationa1594
estraying1598
taveringa1599
straggling1601
wandering1711
1589 R. Rogers Diary 9 July in Two Elizabethan Puritan Diaries (1933) 84 I have set downe oft how such distemperature ariseth, namely, by being unwil[ling] to take paine about the weaning of my self from secret outstrainge into unlawful liberty.
1605 R. Rogers Seven Treatises 426 in M. van Beek Enq. Puritan Vocab. (1969) 110 And by all my..neglects of duty and out-strayings let me not be discouraged.
1619 W. Whately Gods Husbandry 105 The wickednesse, and out-strayings, and finall reuolts of some.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ix. 152 If he finde us in our out-strayings, and give us both direction and will to come into the right way againe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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