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What (who) is errant - definition
CHIVALRIC LITERATURE STOCK CHARACTER
Knight Errant; Knight Errants; Knights Errant; Knight errant; Knights errant; Knight Errantry; Hedge knight; Errant; Knight errantry; Knight-arrant; Knight arrant; Knight (stock character); Knight-errantry; Knight in shining armor; Knight in shining armour; Wandering Knight; Knights-errant
![Title page of an ''[[Amadís de Gaula]]'' romance of 1533](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amadis de Gaula 1533.jpg?width=200 "Title page of an ''[[Amadís de Gaula]]'' romance of 1533")
!["Yvain rescues the lion", from Garrett MS 125, an illustrated manuscript of [[Chrétien de Troyes]]' ''[[Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion]]'', dated to ca. 1295.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yvainlion.JPG?width=200 "\"Yvain rescues the lion\", from Garrett MS 125, an illustrated manuscript of [[Chrétien de Troyes]]' ''[[Yvain, le Chevalier au Lion]]'', dated to ca. 1295.")
errant
a.
Wandering, roving, rambling.
Errant
·noun One who wanders about.
II. Errant ·adj Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
III. Errant ·adj Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
IV. Errant ·adj Journeying; itinerant;
- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
errant
Errant is used to describe someone whose actions are considered unacceptable or wrong by other people. For example, an errant husband is unfaithful to his wife. (FORMAL)
Usually his cases involved errant husbands and wandering wives...
ADJ: ADJ n
Wikipedia
Knight-errant
A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective errant (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels (pas d'armes) or in some other pursuit of courtly love.
Examples of use of errant
1. But sometimes his enthusiasm causes an errant shot.
2. Errant husbands should be crushed but not destroyed.
3. Ford‘s errant liberation of Poland in 1'76 clearly hurt him against Jimmy Carter.
4. No wonder the Government is willing to bite the hand off an errant knight.
5. Most of these errant bears are adolescents who haven‘t yet learned to behave.