straying

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Verb

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straying

  1. 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

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straying (countable and uncountable, plural strayings)

  1. 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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