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1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 156 Rhode-Island a Harbour for the Shunamitish Brethren, as the Saints Errant, the Quakers..&c.

1688 H. Wharton Enthusiasm Church of Rome 24 At last he [sc. Ignatius Loyola] resolved to become Saint-Errant.

1688 H. Wharton Enthusiasm Church of Rome 33 Don Quixot fancied that all Knight-Errants went to Heaven, or at least to Purgatory; and surely Saint-Errants deserved to be placed in a higher degree.

1839 W. Irving Enchanted Island in Knickerbocker Mag. July 28 The fate of these saints errant had hitherto remained a mystery.

1688 H. Wharton Enthusiasm Church of Rome 24 Saint-Errantry was a much easier, and more certain way than Knight-Errantry.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks I. i. 20 If something of this militant Religion, something of this Soul-rescuing Spirit, and Saint-Errantry prevails still.

1760 L. Sterne Serm. (1764) I. 30 If we can so order it, as not to be led out of the way, by the variety of prospects, edifices, and ruins which solicit us, it would be a nonsensical piece of saint-errantary to shut our eyes.

1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 173 The system of Saint-Errantry..forms as conspicuous a part of history in this age, as Knight-Errantry in the succeeding centuries.