vagabond

vagabond (vag-[schwa]-bond), n. Archaic. A homeless wanderer without means of honest livelihood; VAGRANT. • This term became archaic over the course of the 20th century, as vagrants won the right not to be forcibly removed from cities in such cases as Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville, 405 U.S. 156, 92 S.Ct. 839 (1972). In the 1980s and 1990s, vagabonds came to be known as street people and homeless people, or the homeless.

— Also termed vagabundus (vag-[schwa]-b[schwa]n-d[schwa]s).

“[A]ll idle persons or vagabonds [are] … divided into three classes, idle and disorderly persons, rogues and va-gabonds, and incorrigible rogues; — all these are offenders against the good order, and blemishes in the gov-ernment, of any kingdom. They are therefore all punished … rogues and vagabonds with whipping and impri-sonment not exceeding six months ….” 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 170 (1769).

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