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itinerancy

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i·tin·er·an·cy  (-tnr-n-s, -tn-) also i·tin·er·a·cy (--s)
n. pl. i·tin·er·an·cies also i·tin·er·a·cies
A state or system of itinerating, especially in the role or office of public speaker, minister, or judge.

itinerancy [ɪˈtɪnərənsɪ aɪ-], itineracy
n
1. the act of itinerating
2. (Christianity / Protestantism) Chiefly Methodist Church the system of appointing a minister to a circuit of churches or chapels
3. itinerants collectively

itinerancy, itineracy
1. the act or state of traveling from place to place.
2. persons, collectively, whose occupation obliges them to travel constantly.
3. such an occupation. — itinerant. n., adj.
See also: Travel


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It is marked by the divestment from all former attachments, allowing for radical itinerancy.
Many of Jesus' followers were fishermen or working men, but they're told to leave that behind and accept a kind of itinerancy and dependence on God.
Thus, she embodies the ogbanje's archetypal errancy, itinerancy, and mockery of bounded space and linear time, their fluid "wander[ings] insolently back and forth across temporal distinctions," violating and hence rendering contestable, as it were, the boundaries "between past, present, and future" (McCabe, "Errancy" 60).
 
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