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errantry

[ er-uhn-tree ]

noun

plural errantries.
  1. conduct or performance like that of a knight-errant.


藞别谤谤补苍迟谤测

/ 藞蓻谤蓹苍迟谤瑟 /

noun

  1. the way of life of a knight errant
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of errantry1

First recorded in 1645鈥55; errant + -ry
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Example Sentences

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But her brothers, Elladan and Elrohir, were out upon errantry: for they rode often far afield with the Rangers of the North, forgetting never their mother鈥檚 torment in the dens of the orcs.

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The Bree folk were all out to see them off, and were in merrier mood than they had been for a year; and those who had not seen the strangers in all their gear before gaped with wonder at them: at Gandalf with his white beard, and the light that seemed to gleam from him, as if his blue mantle was only a cloud over sunshine; and at the four hobbits like riders upon errantry out of almost forgotten tales.

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Amadas finds himself financially embarrassed, and sets forth for seven years of errantry with only forty pounds in hand.

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The age of knight errantry which Cervantes has haloed with a deathless charm, breathes in this historic Pass of Honour.

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But they made the mistake, common to errantry, of attempting to do so singly and not in a body, and so, one by one, fell a rather easy prey to the giant Dramuziando, who forced them to combat each new enemy who approached.

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erranterrare humanum est