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Significats de knight errantry en anglès

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Quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior.

quixotisme
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Examples for "quixotism"
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His was Kentucky origin and he was tainted with Kentucky's quixotism.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
2
He obeyed and expounded Sypher's quixotism in his roundabout fashion.
Septimus
3
Some of them laughed at my arguments, as a ridiculous piece of missionary quixotism.
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
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In most cases they had followed his advice, wondering not a little at this isolated example of quixotism.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
5
That amounted to quixotism, they declared.
South Wind
Ús de knight errantry en anglès
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His conquests were conducted on what might almost be called principles of knight errantry.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History
2
See what his crazy knight errantry had brought about.
Sir Nigel
3
We were going on an adventure of knight errantry in which we might win our spurs.
The House of the Wolf: A Romance
4
We wait in the nursery for the bridegroom and his father to ride home from their mission of knight errantry.
The King’s Curse
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Maclise was a romanticist, in thrall to images of medieval knight errantry on an epic and, almost certainly, illusory scale.
The Irish Times
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To Christopher's surprise, Cynthia was the single member of the family who showed a sympathy with his reckless knight errantry.
The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
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I am not in this land for knight errantry, but I am here to make head against the King's enemies.
Sir Nigel
8
In the days of knight errantry, every one meeting a stranger had to suppose him an enemy; ten to one he was.
Rolf in the Woods
9
You were born two hundred years too late; the ancient days of knight errantry and chivalry would have suited you better than these.
The Coquette's Victim / Everyday Life Library No. 1
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President Olivier might be called a visionary or a nuisance; but even his enemies admitted that he was magnanimous to the point of knight errantry.
The Innocence of Father Brown
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So he took her home, and his Knight Errantry was justified at last.
The Secret City
12
"And perhaps just a bit of knight errantry?"
War Of Honor
Translations for knight errantry
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