errant

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"Know then, sister mine, that a knight-errant is a thing which in two words is found cudgelled and an emperor.

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  1. adjective Roving, especially in search of adventure: knights errant.
  2. adjective Straying from the proper course or standards: errant youngsters.
  3. adjective Wandering outside the established limits: errant lambs.
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wayward ·  stray ·  truant ·  vagrant ·  eldest ·  repentant ·  runaway ·  erratic ·  fiery ·  misguided ·  newborn ·  recalcitrant
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  1. Middle English erraunt, from Anglo-Norman, partly from Old French errer, to travel about (from Vulgar Latin *iterāre, from Latin iter, journey; see ei- in Indo-European roots) and partly from Old French errer, to err; see err.

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  1. Early modern English also arrant (see arrant, now differentiated from errant); from Middle English erraunt, arraunt, from Old French errant (un chevalier errant, a knight errant, le Juif errant, the wandering Jew, etc.), usually taken as the present participle (from Latin erran(t-)s) of errer, from Latin errare, wander (see err); by some taken as the present participle of errer, make a journey, travel: see errant.
  2. from Old French errant, present participle of errer, esrer, oirer, oirrer, earlier edrer, edrar, make a journey, travel, go, move, etc., from Middle Latin iterare (for Late Latin itinerari), make a journey, travel, from Latin iter (itiner-), a journey, road, way, later Old French erre, eire, Middle English erre, eire, eyre, modern English (in archaic spelling) eyre, a journey, circuit: see eyre, itinerant. cf. errant.
 

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