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What does errantry mean?

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Noun
  1. A wandering or roving around, especially in search of chivalrous adventure.
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But my strolling, my errantry ended here at last at the steps of this altar, as I knew.
Sancho, as Kafka remarked, is a free man, but Don Quixote is metaphysically and psychologically bound by his dedication to knight errantry.
All this seems true to Cervantes's aim of exposing the absurdity of knight errantry, while conveying the holy madness of his hero.
The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and he offered to give him the information if he knew anything about errantry.
Remember how reluctantly Cervantes says farewell to his Don Quixote, who has been on his deathbed, and who has, at the last moment, renounced his knight errantry.
The day will never come, I hope, when we shall degenerate into the footpad, and lose our Night errantry.

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