vagrantism

English

Etymology

vagrant +‎ -ism

Noun

vagrantism (uncountable)

1. The condition of being a vagrant.
   • 1853, Motives for Missions. A series of six lectures delivered before the Church of England Young Men's Society in the Autumn of 1852, page 40:

     Here was instruction given to those who were as yet not tainted with vagrantism, by those who were well versed in those things; here they asked questions how to get into this Union, or that Workhouse—what to say, what time to go, &c.

   • 1877 October, C.C. Lord, “Tramps”, in The Granite Monthly, volume 1, number 6, page 166:

     We have spoken hesitatingly of the prospect of repressing tendencies to vagrantism resident in the temperamental conditions of the individual.

   • 2019, BB Easton, 44 Chapters About 4 Men:

     No one had ever actually seen him since he'd dropped out while my crew was still in middle school, but rumor had it that he'd been squatting in an abandoned house in Atlanta with a band of gutter punks or otherwise engaged in some form of romanticized vagrantism. I now know that such a lifestyle is actually referred to as homelessness, but at the time, Harley James was a punk-rock god and thus the perfect rebound.