knight-errantry
noun
the behavior, vocation, or character of a knight-errant.
knight-errantries
-
pluralof knight-errantry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
I mean, those glancing insights, those adolescent knight-errantries, aren't they old news?
From Time Magazine Archive
The rigid guardian of a blameless heart, So long revered, so long reputed wise, Is weak; with rank knight-errantries o’errun.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young
Happily for her, he fancied that Cleve must have seen Margaret accidentally during some of his political knight-errantries in the county which he had contested with Sir Booth.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
I expect, too, that he was pretty dissatisfied with his knight-errantries.
From The Secret City by Sir Hugh Walpole
