vagrancy

vagrant | American Dictionary

vagrant
noun[ C ]
us/ˈveɪ·ɡrənt/
a person who has no home or job and who moves from place to place

Examples of vagrant

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Churchwardens frequently controlled local charities and their accounts often include payments, particularly to the vagrant poor, that could have come from the overseers.
These treaties regulated the deportation of troublesome foreigners, such as paupers, vagrants, itinerant tradesmen, showmen, and criminals.
Then there were beggars and vagrants, who were unknown to the city's inhabitants and constantly on the move.
The data for adult males and females exclude children under 16, and also exclude those classified as vagrants, for whom no gender breakdown is available.
A citizen whose status fell outside of the domestic relations would be classified as a vagrant, without the obligations or privileges of household status.
Signs left by vagrants at roadsides as a guide to others in the area were a common enough phenomenon.
The significance of the fact that it was the poor, beggars and vagrants who were accused of arson will be addressed later.
Its indiscriminate round-up of refugees led to their being lumped together by the press alongside ex-convicts and vagrants.
No wonder, then, that its hard-pressed neighbours to the east encouraged vagrants to walk a little further before seeking a bed for the night.
In a very few instances, those removed out of the parishes were notorious rogues or vagrants.
Most unions only had a policeman to hand in the evenings when the vagrants were being admitted.
A swelling army of masterless men and landless, or nearly landless, vagrants became a growing concern for elites.
The small number of unidentified birds, wintering migrants and vagrants outside their known breeding range were ignored.
Some of the clans eventually settled down again, while others remained permanently or temporarily vagrant.
Fear of the vagrant arose from the more general threat to the social order that they represented.
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