errantry

American  

[er-uhn-tree] / ˈɛr ən tri /

noun

plural

errantries

1. conduct or performance like that of a knight-errant.

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errantry British  

/ ˈɛrəntrɪ /

noun

1. the way of life of a knight errant

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Etymology

Origin of errantry

First recorded in 1645–55; errant + -ry

Example Sentences

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

This is not very salutary allegorizing, but it is soon over, and the poem closed, leaving a pleasant perfume in the reader's mind of chivalry, errantry and the delicious days before the invention of civilization.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 by Various

Here a man may take to the forest roads in the old spirit of errantry.

From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly