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vagabonding, ppl. a.|ˈvægəbɒndɪŋ|
[f. vagabond v.]
1. That roams or wanders as, or in the manner of, a vagabond. Also transf. and fig.
a1586Sidney Songs in Astr. & Stella v. xii. (Grosart) I. 86, I now then staine thy white with vagabonding shame. 1603Florio Montaigne iii. xiii. 610 Even vagabonding roagues..have their magnificences and voluptuousnesse. 1614Drummond of Hawthornden Wks. (1913) I. 13, I..On euery part my vagabounding Sight Did cast. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 111 A vagabonding Guest, Transported here and there. Ibid. 118 Concerning vagabonding Greekes, and their counterfeit Testimonials. 1881Blackw. Mag. May 571 The sword..went fairly straight along its vagabonding road.
2. Characterized by roaming or wandering; vagabondish.
Not clearly distinct from the vbl. n. used attrib.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 472 These iewels certainely with their disguising sleights, they haue pilfred in their vagabounding race. 1824New Monthly Mag. X. 283 Some would spend our prime's best age In vagabonding pilgrimage. 1904A. B. Paterson Poems 92 And through our blood there runs The vagabonding love of change. |