errantry

errantry
Synonyms and related words:
Wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberration, afoot and lighthearted, bend, bias, bigheartedness, bigness, branching off, bumming, chivalrousness, chivalry, circuitousness, corner, crook, curve, declination, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, elevation, exaltation, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flitting, gadding, generosity, generousness, great heart, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, hairpin, heroism, high-mindedness, hoboism, idealism, indirection, itineracy, itinerancy, knight-errantry, knightliness, largeheartedness, liberality, liberalness, loftiness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, nomadism, obliquity, openhandedness, peregrination, pererration, princeliness, ramble, rambling, roam, roaming, rove, roving, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, straying, sublimity, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, traipsing, turn, turning, twist, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, variation, veer, wandering, wanderlust, warp, wayfaring, yaw, zigzag

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Errantry — Er rant*ry, n. 1. A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. [1913 Webster] 2. The employment of a knight errant. Johnson. [1913 Webster] || …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • errantry — [er′ən trē] n. the condition or behavior of a knight errant; spirit or deeds of chivalry …   English World dictionary

  • Errantry — For the state of roving in search of chivalrous adventure, see knight errant. Errantry is a three page long poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published in 1933.[1] It was included in Tolkien s short poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil… …   Wikipedia

  • errantry — errant ► ADJECTIVE 1) chiefly formal or humorous straying from the accepted course or standards. 2) archaic or literary travelling in search of adventure. DERIVATIVES errantry noun. ORIGIN sense 1 from Latin errare err ; sense 2 from Old French,… …   English terms dictionary

  • errantry — ˈerəntrē, ri sometimes ˈər.ə or ˈarə or ˈə̄rə noun ( es) : wandering; especially : a roving in quest of knightly adventure set out on their tour with a sense of errantry …   Useful english dictionary

  • errantry — noun (plural ries) Date: 1620 the quality, condition, or fact of wandering; especially a roving in search of chivalrous adventure …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • errantry — /er euhn tree/, n., pl. errantries. conduct or performance like that of a knight errant. [1645 55; ERRANT + RY] * * * …   Universalium

  • errantry — noun The state of roving in search of chivalrous adventure …   Wiktionary

  • errantry — er·rant·ry || erÉ™ntrɪ n. way of life of a traveling knight; employment of a knight errant …   English contemporary dictionary

  • errantry — er·rant·ry …   English syllables

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