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vagrancy

/vey-gruhn-see/US // ˈveɪ grən si //UK // (ˈveɪɡrənsɪ) //

流浪,游荡,流浪者,流浪性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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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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.