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

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.

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

From The Insurrection in Dublin by Stephens, James

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

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)