peregrinity

noun 3

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noun

1

The quality of being foreign or strange.

It will be correct, that is, free from faults, if the tongue bee loose, articulate, sweet, and polite: that is, in which no tone of rusticity or peregrinity is discoverable.

somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect

2

The status of being a non-citizen in Ancient Rome.

There were different grades of peregrinity, however, as socii in general; socii nominis Latini; dedititii; yet they could attain to individual privileges, as, for instance, those of connubium (Liv. xxxi . 31.).

Eucrates mentioned in the next line, was an Athenian general, noted for corrupt practices, treachery, and peregrinity.

3

Travel; wandering.

A new removal, what we call 'his third peregrinity,' had to be decided on; and it was resolved that Rome should be the goal of it[.]

Upon reviewing this unbalanced itinerary, I can only conclude that I have been suffering from a bad case of peregrinity (or as I should perhaps refer to it: peregrinosis) .

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