errant

  • 21Errant — A knight, usually a bachelier, who departs to seek adventure and thus earn renown and possibly riches so that he might settle, marry, and earn his living. In history most errants would pursue wars or tournaments as the chief methods by which they …

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  • 22errant — adjective 1) the errant officers were suspended Syn: offending, guilty, culpable, misbehaving, delinquent, lawbreaking; troublesome, unruly, wayward, disobedient Ant: innocent, law abiding 2) archaic …

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  • 23errant — UK [ˈerənt] / US adjective [only before noun] formal 1) behaving in a way that is bad or wrong an errant husband 2) travelling in the wrong direction an errant missile …

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  • 24errant — er•rant [[t]ˈɛr ənt[/t]] adj. 1) deviating from the regular or proper course 2) traveling, esp. in quest of adventure; roving adventurously 3) moving in an aimless or lightly changing manner: an errant breeze[/ex] • Etymology: 1300–50; ME erraunt …

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  • 25errant — /ˈɛrənt / (say eruhnt) adjective 1. journeying or travelling, as a medieval knight in quest of adventure; roving adventurously. 2. deviating from the regular or proper course; erring. 3. moving in an aimless or quickly changing manner. {Middle… …

  • 26errant — adjective /ˈɛɹənt/ a) straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits He wandered in search of love and adventure, like a knight errant. b) prone to making errors …

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  • 27errant — adj. Errant is used with these nouns: ↑husband, ↑pass, ↑shot …

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  • 28errant — Wandering; itinerant; traveling from place to place. See bailiff errant. erraticum. Same as estray …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 29errant — adj. 1 erring; deviating from an accepted standard. 2 literary or archaic travelling in search of adventure (knight errant). Derivatives: errancy n. (in sense 1). errantry n. (in sense 2). Etymology: ME: sense 1 formed as ERR: sense 2 f. OF errer …

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  • 30Errant Story — Infobox comic strip title= Errant Story caption= author= Michael Poe url= http://www.errantstory.com/ rss= atom= status= Updating regularly Monday Wednesday Friday syndicate= publisher= first= 2002 11 01… …

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