itinerancy

noun

itin·​er·​an·​cy ī-ˈti-nə-rən(t)-sē 

1

: a system (as in the Methodist Church) of rotating ministers who itinerate

2

a

: the act of itinerating

b

: the state of being itinerant

Examples of itinerancy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The liquor store was especially sketchy — across the street from a social-services building, with all the itinerancy that that entails — and the cashier sat in the kind of plexiglass pillbox that wasn’t built to keep out the coronavirus. — Daniel Foster, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022

Her first solo show at CAAM brings together works that evoke questions of homelessness and itinerancy. — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 12 July 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined at sense 1