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Definition of Knight errantry
1. Noun. Quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior.
2. Noun. (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knight Errantry
Literary usage of Knight errantry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"Some of it was suited to the age, and salutary; the rest was knight-errantry,
and knight-errantry in its wildest extravagance. ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1889)
"CHAPTER XIX knight errantry AS A TRADE SANDY and I were on the road again, next
morning, bright and early. It was so good to open up one's lungs and take in ..."
3. Cleveland Era: A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics by Henry Jones Ford (1919)
"... KNIGHT-ERRANTRY ALTHOUGH President Cleveland decisively repelled the Senate's
attempted invasion of the power of removal belonging to his office, ..."
4. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... the family—-Precaution against famine—English praying and card-playing—Exercise
for mind and body—Knight-errantry—Sentimentality and mawkish- ness— The ..."
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