Usually means: Monk wandering without fixed monastery.
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▸ noun:  (obsolete) A wandering monk having no fixed monastery, as exemplified in the Rule of St. Benedict.

Similar:
vague, tutory, vagancy, vagrom, oberration, monkery, vagation, vagrance, foreign, noctivagation, more...

Opposite:
anchorite, cenobite, eremite, hermit

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Similar:
vague, tutory, vagancy, vagrom, oberration, monkery, vagation, vagrance, foreign, noctivagation, more...

Opposite:
anchorite, cenobite, eremite, hermit



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