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Definition of Knight-errant
1. Noun. A wandering knight travelling in search of adventure.
Definition of Knight-errant
1. Noun. (qualifier in medieval romance) A knight who wandered in search of adventure and opportunities to prove his chivalry. ¹
2. Noun. A person who displays an adventurous or a quixotic spirit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knight-errant
Literary usage of Knight-errant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1816)
"... I would burn the father who begot me, did I meet him in the garb of a knight
errant." It is in the 10th book of Ama- dis de Gaul, which is feigned to ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"The Cruise of the ' Knight Errant.' By Professor Sir C. WYVILLE THOMSON, FRS The
author, being desirous of working out this problem more completely, ..."
3. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... knight-errant brought into actual practice. The fervour without the absurdity;
the sound principle of justice without the extra- _, _ __, , . ..."
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