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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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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 knight errant had heard the canon's question, and he offered to give him the information if he knew anything about errantry.
Amadas finds himself financially embarrassed, and sets forth for seven years of errantry with only forty pounds in hand.
Direction, errantry, exile, and the changes that accompany displacement in time and space, are recurrent themes throughout the novel.
And when peace was on the land, he went about on errantry, jousting in tournaments and fighting champions.
All this seems true to Cervantes's aim of exposing the absurdity of knight errantry, while conveying the holy madness of his hero.

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