sea-voyagen.
A voyage by sea.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > a voyage
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1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke i. sig. C2 Captain, what think'st thou of such a woman in a long Sea Voyage?
a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 204 Life a Sea-voyage is, Death is the Haven.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. iv. 74 Having been long used to Sea-Voyages, those Motions, although sometimes very violent, did not much discompose me.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 224 [He] appeared to have newly arrived from a sea-voyage.
Derivatives
sea-voyager n. one who goes on a sea-voyage.
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > [noun]
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1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. Argt. 1 Our Brittish braue Sea-voyagers.
sea-voyaging n. the fact or action of going on a sea-voyage.
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society > travel > travel by water > [noun] > navigation by sea
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1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ii. 33 ‘There are many advantages,’ says Saadi, ‘in sea-voyaging, but security is not one of them.’
1906 Westm. Gaz. 10 Apr. 10/1 Captain Alexander Simpson, who has just completed two million miles of sea-voyaging.
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