vagrancy
/vey-gruhn-see/US // ˈveɪ grən si //UK // (ˈveɪɡrənsɪ) //
流浪,游荡,流浪者,流浪性
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n.名词 noun
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plural va·gran·cies.
- : the state or condition of being a vagrant: an arrest for vagrancy.
- : the conduct of a vagrant.
- : mental wandering; reverie.
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nounitinerancy
Examples
He was charged with vagrancy instead and sentenced to six months in jail.
Vagrancy, with its great evils, would have been prevented, and the passing of the Poor laws would have been unnecessary.
We are meditating flight to Italy when my present work is done, as our last bit of vagrancy for a long, long while.
In the records of the Middle Ages enactments for the suppression and ordering of vagrancy continually occur.
Grif was stronger now, and having relapsed into vagrancy, felt himself at liberty to indulge his organ of combativeness.
And then I think of the strange and winding paths, the weary roads he has traveled from that mother's arms to vagrancy and want.
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