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Definition of Errantry
1. n. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures.
Definition of Errantry
1. Noun. The state of roving in search of chivalrous adventure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Errantry
1. the state of wandering [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Errantry
Literary usage of Errantry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"KNIGHT-errantry. fame of valiant and bold knights for the gentlemen of. Castile.”
18 A state of society like this was the natural result of the ..."
2. Cleveland Era: A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics by Henry Jones Ford (1919)
"... KNIGHT-errantry ALTHOUGH President Cleveland decisively repelled the Senate's
attempted invasion of the power of removal belonging to his office, ..."
3. Peter Parley's Common School History: Ilustrated by Engravings by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1850)
"The crusades themselves seemed to establish knight-errantry as regular ...
When knight-errantry, or chivalry, had become thus established those who belonged ..."
4. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... the family—-Precaution against famine—English praying and card-playing—Exercise
for mind and body—Knight-errantry—Sentimentality and mawkish- ness— The ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1859)
"A CHAPTER OF MODERN KNIGHT-errantry. BY PERCY GREG. ON the morning of Monday,
the 21st Februar)-, 1814, ..."
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