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Meanings of knight errantry in English
Catalan
quixotisme Spanish
quijotería Synonyms
Examples for "quixotism"
Examples for "quixotism"
1
His was Kentucky origin and he was tainted with Kentucky's quixotism.
2
He obeyed and expounded Sypher's quixotism in his roundabout fashion.
3
Some of them laughed at my arguments, as a ridiculous piece of missionary quixotism.
4
In most cases they had followed his advice, wondering not a little at this isolated example of quixotism.
5
That amounted to quixotism, they declared.
Usage of knight errantry in English
1
His conquests were conducted on what might almost be called principles of knight errantry.
2
See what his crazy knight errantry had brought about.
3
We were going on an adventure of knight errantry in which we might win our spurs.
4
We wait in the nursery for the bridegroom and his father to ride home from their mission of knight errantry.
5
Maclise was a romanticist, in thrall to images of medieval knight errantry on an epic and, almost certainly, illusory scale.
6
To Christopher's surprise, Cynthia was the single member of the family who showed a sympathy with his reckless knight errantry.
7
I am not in this land for knight errantry, but I am here to make head against the King's enemies.
8
In the days of knight errantry, every one meeting a stranger had to suppose him an enemy; ten to one he was.
9
You were born two hundred years too late; the ancient days of knight errantry and chivalry would have suited you better than these.
10
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.
11
So he took her home, and his Knight Errantry was justified at last.
12
"And perhaps just a bit of knight errantry?"