peregrinity

peregrinity

English

Etymology

peregrine +‎ -ity, from Latin peregrinitas: compare French pérégrinité.

Noun

peregrinity (countable and uncountable, plural peregrinities)

1. (obsolete) The quality of being foreign or strange.
   • 1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D

     somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect

2. (obsolete) travel; wandering
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], OCLC 2742477:

     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[.]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for peregrinity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)