Peregrinity
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being foreign or strange. countable, uncountable
"It will be correct, that is, free from faults, if the tongue bee loose, articulate, sweet, and polite: that is, in which no tone of rusticity or peregrinity is discoverable."
- 2 The status of being a non-citizen in Ancient Rome. countable, historical, uncountable
"There were different grades of peregrinity, however, as socii in general; socii nominis Latini; dedititii; yet they could attain to individual privileges, as, for instance, those of connubium (Liv. xxxi . 31.)."
- 3 Travel; wandering. countable, uncountable
"A new removal, what we call 'his third peregrinity,' had to be decided on; and it was resolved that Rome should be the goal of it[.]"
Example
More examples"It will be correct, that is, free from faults, if the tongue bee loose, articulate, sweet, and polite: that is, in which no tone of rusticity or peregrinity is discoverable."
Etymology
From peregrine + -ity, from Latin peregrīnitās. Compare French pérégrinité.
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