[f. ERRANT + -RY.] The condition of being errant; the condition of a knight-errant; conduct or notions characteristic of a knight-errant. See also KNIGHT-ERRANTRY.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, I. i. 2. As appeares by his Errantry, which is but a neater word for wandring.
1661. K. W., Conf. Charac. (1860), 20. He sends so many St. Georges to an eternal errantry never to returne to his burnt bottometh pocked.
1733. Fielding, Quix., I. v. I should not have followed his errantries so long.
1825. A. W. Fonblanque, in West. Review, IV. 398. Sheridan’s part in this affray was considered by the shrewder observers as a ridiculous piece of errantry.
1881. Duffield, Don Quix., Pref. 35. On the return home from their errantries.
