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Adjective

itinerant (comparative more itinerant, superlative most itinerant)

  • Habitually travelling from place to place. [from 1560s]
    • ✤ an itinerant preacher or peddler
    • ✤ The king’s own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king’s palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.1
    • ✤ most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher.2
    • ✤ The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.3

Noun

itinerant (plural itinerants)

  • One who travels from place to place.
  • (Ireland) A member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.

Etymology

From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”), from itiner-. By surface analysis, Latin itiner- +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /aɪˈtɪnɚənt/
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Footnotes

  1. 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England,, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC: ↩

  2. 1971, Richard Austin King, Clifford Thomas Morgan, Readings for an Introduction to Psychology: ↩

  3. 2010, Craig Ott, Gene Wilson, Global Church Planting: ↩

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