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Webster 1913 Edition


Itinerancy

I-tin′er-an-cy

(ī̍-tĭn′ẽr-an-sy̆)
,1
Noun.
[See
Itinerant
.]
1.
A passing from place to place.
Dr. H. More.
2.
A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence; the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also, a body of persons who thus discharge official duty.

Definition 2024


itinerancy

itinerancy

English

Noun

itinerancy (usually uncountable, plural itinerancies)

  1. The state or quality of being itinerant
    I went through a period of itinerancy in my youth.
  2. The Methodist pastorate; or itinerant preaching in general
    I joined the itinerancy at the age of 25.