What is "errantry"

Usage examples of "errantry".

In brief, long live knight errantry, over and above everything in the world today!

I drink, for one may say of knight errantry what is said of love: it makes all things equal.

I have received, though unworthy and a sinner, and by the profession of knight errantry, that if, Senor, you satisfy me in this, I shall serve you with the devotion to which I am obliged by being the man I am, whether to remedy your misfortune, if it has a remedy, or to help you lament it, as I have promised you I would.

Ah, vile rabble, your low and base intelligence does not deserve to have heaven communicate to you the great worth of knight errantry, or allow you to understand the sin and ignorance into which you have fallen when you do not reverence the shadow, let alone the actual presence, of any knight errant.

I have done wrong to read them, and worse to believe them, and worse yet to imitate them by setting myself the task of following the extremely difficult profession of knight errantry which they teach, and you deny that there ever were Amadises in the world, whether of Gaul or of Greece, or any of the other knights that fill the writings.

And so they decided to visit him and see his improvement for themselves, although they considered a complete cure almost impossible, and they agreed not to make any mention at all of knight errantry so as not to run the risk of reopening his wounds, which were still so fresh.

I only devote myself to making the world understand its error in not restoring that happiest of times when the order of knight errantry was in flower.

I am going to force the ancient usage of knight errantry beyond its limits and boundaries, then you are sadly mistaken.

How can your magnanimous heart not soften at seeing the pillar and support of knight errantry on his knees in your sublimal presence?

I have already told your grace, and if I have, I shall tell you again, that when your grace wishes to save a good deal of time and trouble in your ascent to the inaccessible summit of the temple of Fame, you need do nothing else but leave the narrow path of poetry and follow the even narrower one of knight errantry, which will suffice to make you an emperor in the blink of an eye.

Merlin has made so many prophecies: I mean Don Quixote of La Mancha, who once again, and to greater advantage than in past times, has revived in the present a long-forgotten knight errantry, and through his mediation and by his favor it may be that the spell over us will be broken, for great deeds are reserved for great men.

I hope is that I can see the first man who put the finishing touches on knight errantry burned and ground into dust, or at least the first one who wanted to be squire to the great fools that all knights errant in the past must have been.

I, influenced by my star, follow the narrow path of knight errantry, and because I profess it I despise wealth but not honor.

Good fortune to such a master and such a servant, the one for being the polestar of knight errantry, the other for being the star of squirely fidelity.

I took on the order of knight errantry which I profess, whose exercise extends even to doing good to souls in purgatory.