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knight-errantries

knight-errantries is the plural of knight-errantry.

Meaning of knight-errantry

Noun

knight-errantry (countable and uncountable, plural knight-errantries)

  1. The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures.
  2. Chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
    • Virtue is knight-errantry no more1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC

Questions about knight-errantries

What is knight-errantries the plural of?
Knight-errantries is the plural of knight-errantry.

Words near knight-errantries in the dictionary

  1. knight's spur
  2. knight's tour
  3. knight's tours
  4. Knight-Darwin law
  5. knight-errant
  6. knight-errantries
  7. knight-errantry
  8. knight-erratic
  9. knight-service
  10. knightable
  11. knightage

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