vagabondage

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In 17th- and 18th-century England, this panic resulted in harsh laws against vagabondage, and the development of charities to ameliorate the worst effects of enforced destitution.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2018

She is consigned to a madhouse, and her child to a life of pachyderm vagabondage in the company of a helpful mouse and some jive-talking crows.

From Time • Apr. 8, 2014

Respectability and vagabondage are fighting it out in Victorian society, as they did in Pinero himself, the stage-struck clerk turned dramatist.

From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2013

Stevenson's travels through Provence, U. S. mountains, the South Seas to his Samoan grave suggest not only a search for healthful air but the consumptive's itch for vagabondage.

From Time Magazine Archive

High settlement fees, expensive examinations, limitations of a trade to a certain number of masters and apprentices,—all this condemned thousands to pauperism, to a life of celibacy, and to vagabondage.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel