Definition of "vagrance" in Anglais

noun

1. (archaic) Vagrancy, wandering.

   • 1601, John Legat, printer to the University of Cambridge (publisher), Ease for Overseers of the Poore: Abstracted from the Statutes https://books.google.com/books?id=vJ7ZgWitKDsC&pg=PP5&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false […] but as they have wavering and straying mindes, so they will have wandering and unstaid bodies, which will sooner be disposed to vagrance than activitie, to idlenesse than to worke.
   • 1913, Carl Shurz (Frederic Bancroft editor), Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Peace_%E2%80%94_a_Solid,_Durable_Peace Here vagrance laws were enacted calculated to tie the colored laborer to his late owner by the most arbitrary legal obligations.