[f. as prec.]
1. = VAGABONDAGE 1.
1819. Lett to Ed., in Morning Chron., 21 Aug., 3/1. I beg to notice, through your columns, a species of vagabondism, which since it is now accompanied with such unheard of depravity and ruffianism is high time should be speedily put an end to effectually.
1822. Blackw. Mag., II. 139. Who, after forty years of indigence and vagabondism, is admitted into the first societies.
1859. Hist. Cant, in Slang Dict., p. ix. The Gypsies were not long in the country before they found native imitators. Vagabondism is peculiarly catching.
1888. Charity Organis. Rev., April, 145. Vagabondism as a licit mode of life.
b. A rascally or knavish act rare.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, v. (1904), 188. All errors and perversities of his, even those stealings of ribbons, aimless confused miseries and vagabondisms.
2. = VAGABONDAGE 2. rare–1.
1872. Brewer, Eng. Studies (1881), iv. 196. All the vagabondism of the kingdom had scented the fray.
