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peregrinity
noun 3
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4ADJ.
discoverable
PEREGRINITY + NOUN
dialect
PREP.
in
ADV.
somewhat
Definitions
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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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.
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somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect
Wiktionary03
The future translator is exhorted to consult his author's manner, to copy his air and gesture, and to preserve the 'very fashion, simple or splendid, of his garb, with the exception only of such arts
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