peregrinity
(pɛrɪˈgrɪnɪtɪ)
[ad. F. pérégrinité (Rabelais 16th c.), or ad. L. peregrīnitās the condition of a peregrīnus or foreigner: see -ity.]
The condition of being a foreigner or alien, esp. in Roman Antiq. (see quot. 1880); † the quality or fact of being foreign, foreignness, outlandishness, strangeness (obs.).
| 1591 G. Fletcher Russe Commw. (Hakl. Soc.) 151 This causeth the Emperours to..be very warie for excluding of all peregrinitie that might alter their fashions. 1607 Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. v. 33 The affected peregrinitie of his straunge attire. 1774 Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 29 Aug., He said to me..‘these people, sir,..may have somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect, which relation has augmented to a different language’. I asked him if peregrinity was an English word. He laughed and said, ‘No’. 1807 F. Wrangham Serm. Transl. Script. 21 Stamped with idiotism or with peregrinity. 1880 Muirhead Gaius 566 Peregrinity, the condition of those who, being free, were neither citizens nor colonial or Junian latins, though possibly Roman subjects. 1900 Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 206/2 A mere concomitant of peregrinity. |
b. A sojourn or journeying abroad. rare.
| 1831 Carlyle Sterling ii. iv, Five health-journeys which..he had to make in all. ‘Five forced peregrinities’. Ibid. vi, A new removal, what we call ‘his third peregrinity’, had to be decided on. |