Vagrantism

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being a vagrant. uncountable

    "Here was instruction given to those who were as yet not tainted with vagrantism, by those who were well versed in those things; here they asked questions how to get into this Union, or that Workhouse—what to say, what time to go, &c."

Example

More examples

"Here was instruction given to those who were as yet not tainted with vagrantism, by those who were well versed in those things; here they asked questions how to get into this Union, or that Workhouse—what to say, what time to go, &c."

Etymology

From vagrant + -ism.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.