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vagrancy
Part of speech: NounThe state of one who wanders without a settled home; the habits and life of an idle wanderer or tramp.
Usage examples "vagrancy":- To natural viciousness and vagrancy are being daily added motives of revolt and revenge which stir up all the latent savagery of both races and make peaceful attention to economic development often impossible. - "The Souls of Black Folk", W. E. B. Du Bois.
- I ain't full and it ain't vagrancy to walk along the road to Manlius. - "The Boy Scouts on a Submarine", Captain John Blaine.
- He was in jail for vagrancy. - "Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp", Percy Keese Fitzhugh.