单词 | saint-errantry |
释义 | > as lemmassaint-errantry saint-errantry n. the character, practice, or spirit of a saint-errant. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > travelling > condition of saint-errantry1688 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. < as lemmas |
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