errantry
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errantries
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Wodehouse playing the part of Cervantes in affectionately revealing the absurdity of knight errantry in the new social circumstances.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and he offered to give him the information if he knew anything about errantry.
From The Story of Don Quixote by Florence Choate
At the same time I hold no brief for small States as such, and most vehemently deny that we are in any way bound to knight errantry on their behalf as against big ones.
From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various
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