noctivagation

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Noun

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noctivagation (countable and uncountable, plural noctivagations)

  1. A roving or going about in the night.
    • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote:
      Could he not remember what befel him on the first entrance of his adventures, when this vertigo of noctivagation and watching his arms seized him?
    • 1988, William Brinkley, The Last Ship:
      It is this really that turns me to these noctivagations.
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