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Noctivagant

//nɑkˈtɪvəɡənt// adj, noun

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Adjective

1
Walking or wandering in the nighttime, nightwandering.
"[…] I therefore think, Sarah, that the incommensurability of the crime with the effect, completely warrants the supersaliency of this noctivagant delinquent."

Noun

1
One who goes walking by night.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Late Latin noctivagans, from noctivagare, from Latin nocti- (“night”) + participle form of vagari (“to wander”).

Etymology 2

From Late Latin noctivagans, from noctivagare, from Latin nocti- (“night”) + participle form of vagari (“to wander”).

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