vagancy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin vagans, present participle of vagor. See vagantes.
Noun
[edit]vagancy (plural vagancies)
- (obsolete) A wandering; vagrancy.
- 1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 203:
- Yet is it not to be conceiv'd that thoſe eternal Effluences of Sanctity and Love in the glorified Saints, ſhould by this means be confin'd and cloy'd with repetition of that which is preſcrib'd, but that our happineſs may orb it ſelf into a thouſand vagancies of glory and delight, […]
References
[edit]- “vagancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.