vagabondismn.
/ˈvaɡəbɒndɪz(ə)m/ 1.
a. = vagabondage n. 1.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage
loitering1530
vacabuncy1535
vagabondry1547
vagabuncy1549
roguing1577
roguery1594
vagabondinga1628
vagrancy1706
vagrance1751
vagabondizing1755
vagabondage1813
vagabondism1822
vag1859
beachcombing1867
trampism1893
hoboism1930
1822 Blackwood's Mag. 11 139 Who, after forty years of indigence and vagabondism, is admitted into the first societies.
1859 Hist. Cant in Slang Dict. p. ix The Gypsies were not long in the country before they found native imitators. Vagabondism is peculiarly catching.
1888 Charity Organis. Rev. Apr. 145 Vagabondism as a licit mode of life.
b. A rascally or knavish act. rare.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun] > instance of
rascality1582
roguery1594
foist1607
scoundrelism1611
vagabundulo1631
vagabondism1841
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > instance of
roguery1592
vagabundulo1631
rascality1691
scoundrelism1773
vagabondism1841
rascaldom1851
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes v. 302 All errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons, aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms.
2. = vagabondage n. 2. rare.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > collectively
vagabondage1855
vagabondism1872
profesh1897
crusty1990
1872 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) iv. 196 All the vagabondism of the kingdom had scented the fray.
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