knight-errantry

English

Noun

knight-errantry (countable and uncountable, plural knight-errantries)

1. The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures.
2. Chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
   • 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:

     Virtue is knight-errantry no more

References

“knight-errantry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.