knight-errant
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- noun
- /naɪtˈɛrənt/
- Archaic
:
caballero andante
- Each of these books had as a hero a knight errant that incarnated heroism, hammer of fidelity, and was the defender of justice and of the oppressed.
Examples
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In the story, the hero set out as a knight-errant to rescue a village from a dragon.
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But I am bound to honor the code of knight-errant.
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"Not for nothing am I known as the greatest knight-errant the world has ever known, as well as the most skilled with arms."
Fiction book (2001) -
A knight-errant and his loyal squire, huh?
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You are a knight-errant.
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King Sancho, astonishing things attend the profession of a knight-errant.
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Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he decides to turn knight-errant himself.
Blog text (12) -
The Quijote stood to his arms, leaning on his lance and thinking of his lady love in the manner of knights-errant in all times and places.
Fiction book (2001) -
The knight-errant, popularized over the centuries in a variety of art forms (most notably fiction and drama), became a glamorized cultural icon, a larger-than-life hero who could right wrongs when the law failed to protect people from injustice and the abuse of power.
Academic text (2009) -
After reading countless tales of bravery, he dreamed of becoming a knight-errant who fights for justice.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word knight-errant joins knight and errant, where errant comes from a word meaning 'to wander'. So a knight-errant is a wandering knight who travels to find adventures and to help people in need.