exploratious

Updated: May 1, 2025

And Mr Polly did at last take his fate into his own hands, commit arson, desert his wife and wander off, an "exploratious adventurer," as he might have put it, to discover some joy and poetry in life after a heroic battle that he funked most horribly and might have avoided.

J. D. (John Davys) Beresford - H. G. Wells