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vagabondism|ˈvægəbɒndɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec.]
1. = vagabondage 1.
1822Blackw. Mag. II. 139 Who, after forty years of indigence and vagabondism, is admitted into the first societies. 1859Hist. Cant in Slang Dict. p. ix, The Gypsies were not long in the country before they found native imitators. Vagabondism is peculiarly catching. 1888Charity Organis. Rev. April 145 Vagabondism as a licit mode of life.
b. A rascally or knavish act. rare.
1840Carlyle Heroes v. (1904) 188 All errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons, aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms.
2. = vagabondage 2. rare—1.
1872Brewer Eng. Studies (1881) iv. 196 All the vagabondism of the kingdom had scented the fray. |