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adjective

Errant adj.

Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving. "Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven."

Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant. "Would make me an errant fool."

(Eng. Law) Journeying; itinerant; formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

noun

Errant n. One who wanders about. (Obs.)

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"Errant" Quotes from Famous Books

... Prince Zerbino all the arms unites, And hangs like a fair trophy, on a pine. And, to preserve them safe from errant knights, Natives or foreigners, in one short line Upon the sapling's verdant surface writes, ORLANDO'S ARMS, KING CHARLES'S PALADINE. As he would say, "Let none this harness move, Who cannot with its ...

— National Epics • Kate Milner Rabb

... past your thought— Into an emptiness you know not of— A night profounder that it late has held Marsh-lights of promise. My last altar lies Smoking in ruins; and I stand alone Of all the universe. But my Will be done! My errant tortured Will, my bitter Will, My Will, ...

— Mr. Faust • Arthur Davison Ficke

... clucked cunningly. And before he undertook his appeal to bring the errant one back to shore he gave himself two days to think it over. To this extent Dr. Surtaine had become a partisan of the new enterprise; that he, too, previsioned an ideal newspaper, a newspaper which, day by day, should uphold and defend the Best Interests of the Community, and, ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... that we should probably fall in with the proper track by inclining somewhat to the right; and I had so much faith also in True's sagacity that I had hopes he would find it. However, I gave him more credit than he deserved. He was always happy in the woods, like a knight-errant in search of adventures, plenty of which he was indeed likely to ...

— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston

... France a colonial empire to match that of her enemy.[23] De Leon discovered Florida, and died while seeking there to emulate the successes of Cortes. De Soto discovered the Mississippi[24] and he also perished, lured on in the same knight-errant search for another golden empire to conquer. Who, having read the lives of such adventurers as these, shall ridicule the wildest extravagance in all the romances of chivalry? Wonderland grew real around these men. They achieved impossibilities. ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various

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