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errantry
CIDE DICTIONARY
errantry, n.
- A wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures. Addison. [1913 Webster]
- The employment of a knight-errant. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
errantry
Wanderjahr, aberrancy, aberration, afoot and lighthearted, bend, bias, bigheartedness, bigness, branching off, bumming, chivalrousness, chivalry, circuitousness, corner, crook, curve, declination, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, elevation, exaltation, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, flitting, gadding, generosity, generousness, great heart, greatheartedness, greatness, greatness of heart, hairpin, heroism, high-mindedness, hoboism, idealism, indirection, itineracy, itinerancy, knight-errantry, knightliness, largeheartedness, liberality, liberalness, loftiness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, nomadism, obliquity, openhandedness, peregrination, pererration, princeliness, ramble, rambling, roam, roaming, rove, roving, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, slant, straying, sublimity, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, traipsing, turn, turning, twist, vagabondage, vagabondia, vagabondism, vagrancy, variation, veer, wandering, wanderlust, warp, wayfaring, yaw, zigzag
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