noctivagation
English edit
Noun edit
noctivagation (countable and uncountable, plural noctivagations)
- A roving or going about in the night.
- 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote:
- Could he not remember what befel him on the first entrance of his adventures, when this vertigo of noctivagation and watching his arms seized him?
- 1988, William Brinkley, The Last Ship:
- It is this really that turns me to these noctivagations.