solivagant

Latin sōlivagāns, from sōlus (“alone”) + vagāns, present participle of vagō (“wander”).

• IPA^(key): /soʊˈlɪvəɡənt/, /səˈlɪvəɡənt/

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solivagant (not comparable)

1. wandering alone

solivagant (plural solivagants)

1. 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.

• mundivagant
• noctivagant