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errant Definition


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errant
adj
    literary:
    1. Doing wrong; erring.
      Thesaurus: straying, aberrant, wayward; wrong, erring.
    2. Wandering in search of adventure.
      Example: a knight errant
      Thesaurus: roaming, itinerant, vagrant, roving, nomadic, wandering.
Derivative: errantry
noun
    Etymology: 14c: from French errer, in sense 1 from Latin errare to stray, and in sense 2 from Latin itinerare to make a journey.



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