straying
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English
[edit ]Verb
[edit ]straying
- present participle and gerund of stray
- 1951 February, "Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains", in Railway Magazine, page 136:
- Wire netting has been erected in many places to stop straying animals, and most of the level crossing gates are locked and broken.
Noun
[edit ]straying (countable and uncountable , plural strayings )
- The act of one who strays; deviation or sin, often sexual infidelity.
- 2002, Adena Tanenbaum, The Contemplative Soul:
- The soul is described as a dove who once nested in God's protective shade, and her strayings from the straight and narrow are portrayed as a descent into the defiling world of corporeality[...]
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