Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice or habit of traveling from place to place; the state of being itinerant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
itinerancy ..
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Examples
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We are importing nothing but crime, poverty, illiteracy, itineracy, and uneducatable peasants.
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Whitefield's itineracy, like the blazing cross in the Lady of the Lake, was the signal for an uprising.
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The invitation which she needed for the satisfactory conduct of her modish itineracy from country house to country house had not come in the early mail as she expected.
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Whether Mr. Freeman Clarke derived his inspiration for the itineracy from his lady-love is not for us to decide; this much is certain: from the day the "Atlantic" sailed for the Old World with Miss Toothaker on board his zeal flagged, and soon gave out altogether.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee
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It is true, however, that a resulting lowering of vitality has followed the admixture of "_kindred blood_," which was almost unavoidable during the days of slavery as the result of certain well-known procreative practices that obtained on the part of the master, and on account of the itineracy of the Negro incident to his chattelism.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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Pontoise -- the last points of merely bodily travel that I shall ever make: here-after my itineracy shall be entirely theoretical.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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After that the trail of death which had followed Hélène's itineracy about the lower section of the Brittany peninsula was broken for three years.
She Stands Accused 1935
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Boydton (Virginia) Church, but after one year of service he retired from the itineracy, on account of increasing ill health, and was given an educational appointment, by his Conference, to the
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The Rev.D. G.C. Butts, who spent over one-half century in the Methodist itineracy and whose first service as a Methodist minister was in Caroline county, writes in his autobiography as follows:
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The itineracy he believed was a necessity for the preacher as well as for the people.
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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