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English
Etymology
From Latin sōlivagāns, from sōlus (“alone”) + vagāns, present participle of vagō (“wander”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /soʊˈlɪvəɡənt/, /səˈlɪvəɡənt/
Adjective
solivagant (not comparable)
- wandering alone
Noun
solivagant (plural solivagants)
- one who wanders alone
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
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