noctivagation

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noun

A roving or going about in the night.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounnoctivagation (countable and uncountable, plural noctivagations)

plural noctivagations

  1. countableuncountableA roving or going about in the night.

    It is this really that turns me to these noctivagations.

    1988, William Brinkley, The Last Ship
    1 more example

    Could he not remember what befel him on the first entrance of his adventures, when this vertigo of noctivagation and watching his arms seized him?

    1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote
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