straying
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 […]