vagrantlyadv.
/ˈveɪɡrəntli/, U.S. /ˈveɪɡrəntli/ As a vagrant; in a vagrant or wandering manner; †irrelevantly.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adverb] > irrelevantly
impertinentlyc1449
unhanginglyc1449
unpertinentlyc1449
vagrantly1547
unconsequently1565
inappositelya1652
unappositely1680
inconsequentially1754
irrelevantly1818
inconsequently1864
out1989
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adverb] > in wandering manner
wilsomelyc1420
erroneously1528
vagrantly1547
gaddingly1552
wanderingly1552
roamingly1621
rovingly1664
excursively1791
ramblingly1855
1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 3 §6 We haue taken this bearer I. K. vagrauntlie,..going loytering idellie abowt.
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 634 The contrary..being barely and nakedly affirmed of the Iesuites, and that most vagrantly, and from the purpose.
1604 R. Parsons 3rd Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. II. iii. 93 Who would neither haue lands..nor any certaine seats or habitation, but went abroade vagrantly.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ Vage, wandringly, scatteringly, vagrantly.
1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Vagrantly, in a wandering, unsettled manner.
1893 Dispatch (Columbus, Ohio) 20 Apr. Come with me then, vagrantly, into a few of these lovely old home-spots of rural England.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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