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errantry|ˈɛrəntrɪ|
[f. errant + -ry.]
The condition of being errant; the condition of a knight-errant; conduct or notions characteristic of a knight-errant. See also knight-errantry.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes i. i. 2 As appeares by his Errantry, which is but a neater word for wandring. 1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 20 He sends so many St. Georges to an eternal errantry never to returne to his burnt bottometh pocked. 1733Fielding Quix. i. v, I should not have followed his errantries so long. 1825A. W. Fonblanque in West. Review IV. 398 Sheridan's part in this affray was considered by the shrewder observers as a ridiculous piece of errantry. 1881A. J. Duffield Don Quix. Pref. 35 On the return home from their errantries. |