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errantry

/er-uhn-tree/US // ˈɛr ən tri //UK // (ˈɛrəntrɪ) //

误入歧途,错乱,误区,误导

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural er·rant·ries.

    • : conduct or performance like that of a knight-errant.

Examples

  • Those mighty enquiries were the intellectual jousts and tournaments of the age of chivalry and knight errantry.

  • The king seems to have had no definite purpose beyond gratifying his taste for knight-errantry.

  • It was the old axiom of knight-errantry adapted to our own century, which made every weapon fair used against the plebeian!

  • And as all this passed rapidly through her mind it aroused all her knight-errantry, raising a strongly protective spirit in her.

  • Then I resolved with true knight-errantry To burst the door, and set the captive free.