errantry
Americannoun
plural
errantriesnoun
Etymology
Origin of errantry
Example Sentences
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Throughout his 60 years of public life, Winston Churchill has managed better than any other Briton to suffuse the political scene with the spirit of knight errantry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wodehouse playing the part of Cervantes in affectionately revealing the absurdity of knight errantry in the new social circumstances.
From Time Magazine Archive
But her brothers, Elladan and Elrohir, were out upon errantry: for they rode often far afield with the Rangers of the North, forgetting never their mother’s torment in the dens of the orcs.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
It was a letter breathing the spirit of knight errantry, such a letter as a love-sick boy of twenty would write.
From The Princess Galva A Romance by Whitelaw, David
She won a smile from him as he bent over her sofa to kiss her good-by, but she reserved further comments upon his errantry for Bob.
From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various
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