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Vagabondage

Vagabondage \Vag"a*bond`age\, n. [Cf. F. vagabondage.] The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.

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vagabondage

n. 1 The state or characteristic of being a vagabond. 2 Vagabonds, considered as a collective.

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vagabondage

n. travelling about without any clear destination; "she followed him in his wanderings and looked after him" [syn: wandering, roving]

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In England, Marx explains, proletarianization was accomplished first by the enclosures of the common lands and the clearing of peasants from the estates, and then by the brutal punishment of vagabondage and vagrancy.