errantryn.
/ˈɛrəntri/, /ˈɛrn̩tri/, U.S. /ˈɛrəntri/ The condition of being errant; the condition of a knight-errant; conduct or notions characteristic of a knight-errant. See also knight-errantry n.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [noun]
quixotism1620
windmill1645
errantry1654
knight-errantry1660
quixotry1703
Don 'Quixotism1719
romance1745
quixoticism1850
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. i. 2 As appeares by his Errantry, which is but a neater word for wandring.
1661 K. W. Confused Characters 2 He sends so many St. Georges to an eternal errantry never to returne to his burnt bottometh pocked.
1734 H. Fielding Don Quixote in Eng. i. vi. 15 I should not have follow'd his Errantries so long.
1825 A. W. Fonblanque in West. Rev. IV. 398 Sheridan's part in this affray was considered by the shrewder observers as a ridiculous piece of errantry.
1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote Pref. 35 On the return home from their errantries.
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