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Meanings of errantry in English

Aimless wandering or drifting in its literal and figural sense, esp. in art and literature.

        Usage of errantry in English
        1
        Hence an adventure happened which is almost unexampled in tales of knight-errantry.
        The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1
        2
        This elderly New-Englander had in him none of the spirit of knight-errantry.
        The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
        3
        Of a sudden there came an adventure which gave opening for knight-errantry.
        Overland: A Novel
        4
        The great psychological moment of Sydney Lord's life for knight-errantry had arrived.
        The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
        5
        He had not come without some sensation of romance in his knight-errantry.
        What Necessity Knows
        6
        This was the end of our long ride, our aspirations, our knight-errantry!
        The House of the Wolf: A Romance
        7
        So, then, long live knight-errantry beyond everything living on earth this day!
        Don Quixote
        8
        In 1095, after the preaching errantry of Peter the Hermit, Pope Urban II.
        A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1
        9
        And one purpose Cervantes had was to laugh a tawdry knight-errantry off the stage.
        A Hero and Some Other Folks
        10
        But I hope this knight-errantry will not grow to be a habit with me.
        The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
        11
        His conquests were conducted on what might almost be called principles of knight errantry.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History
        12
        He burned with shame to think what a pitiful failure his knight-errantry had been.
        The Haunted Bookshop
        13
        Here a man may take to the forest roads in the old spirit of errantry.
        Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
        14
        Since his adventure in knight-errantry Christopher Parish had suffered terrible alternations of hope and despair.
        The Town Traveller
        15
        Of course, to a gentleman of my knight-errantry, that was sufficient to fire my blood.
        The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week
        16
        Love, like knight-errantry, puts all things on a level.
        Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
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        Frequent collocations
        Errantry through the time
        Errantry across language varieties
        United Kingdom
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