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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. See also: Travel2. persons, collectively, whose occupation obliges them to travel constantly. 3. such an occupation. — itinerant. n., adj. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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