errancy
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Traversing Central and Eastern Europe, New York, California, the Southwestern U. S., Buenos Aires, and Haiti, Reines resembles a cosmic outlaw, a modern-day wandering Jew, whose errancy and alienation disrupts illusions of order.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2019
He replied collectedly enough in speech, but with that ramble and errancy clouding his eyes.
From The Insurrection in Dublin by Stephens, James
Such errancy betrays a violent and egotistical personality, increases one's sense of corporeality, and begets a fear of the senses and a perpetually egotistical sensibility.
From Retrospection and Introspection by Eddy, Mary Baker
But those who knew Mr. Woods personally will readily acquit him of the charge of any such ethnological errancy.
From The Colored Inventor A Record of Fifty Years by Baker, Henry E.
She liked to think and to say that after all, in spite of her husband's errancy, Chicago was also her city.
From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert
Like Milne’s books, the movie is partly an initiation into the delightful errancies of language, which fashions sense and nonsense out of the same materials.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2011
Larry in these injured moods felt vague possibilities of wickedness within him,—justified errancies….
From Together by Herrick, Robert
