In the 16th century, if you “wandered,” you were hiking or figuratively deviating from a straight path by committing a minor offense. If you`ve talked or written whims, you`ve moved away from a main topic. These meanings had not moved away from its origin, as vagary is probably based on the Latin vagari, which means “to wander”. In fact, in the 16th and 17th centuries, there was even an English verb vagary meaning “to wander.” Nowadays, the noun vagary is mainly used in its plural form, and whims have more to do with unpredictability than with wandering. “the vagaries of the weather”; “its wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market”; “He dealt with human whims for many years” Va-gā′ri, n. A Wandering of the Thoughts: a wild freak: a laun:—pl. Vagā`ries.—n. Vagā′rian, a person with whims. Vagā′rious; Vagā′rish.—n. Vagar′ness, irregularity, whim. perhaps borrowed from the Latin vagÄrÄ””wandering, wandering” at the wandering entrance 2 an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or in the behavior of a person, etc.), hence a wandering of thoughts; a wild or imaginative monster; a whim; A fanciful purpose The numerical value of vagrancy in Chaldean numerology is: 5 Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
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