errancy

Example Sentences

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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

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

He replied collectedly enough in speech, but with that ramble and errancy clouding his eyes.

From The Insurrection in Dublin by Stephens, James

I have not taken a brief to prove the errancy of Scripture.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)

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