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errant

adjective aberrant, amiss, astray, at fault, awry, deviant, deviating, deviatory, erring, erroneous, faultful, faulty, imperfect, incorrect, misdirected, not right, peccant, wrong

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Marronage, yet another keyword in Glissant, becomes in Roberts's verses a means to theorize a poetics of errantry.

John Drabinski and Marisa Parham, eds. 2015. Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations

knowledge about the tales of knight errantry, and Sanchos understanding

A squire's schooling: the education of Sancho Panza

The larger picture, in all of its errantry, links Three-Fingered Kate and the actress who played her; the house-slave, Maillotte Boyd; the brown girl in a ring; southern U.

The poetics of labor in Jean Rhys's global modernism

8) Grandison's knight errantry is a continuation of the novel's didacticism: he only rescues the unfortunate from excessive retribution.

Manly lessons: Sir Charles Grandison, the rake, and the man of sentiment

Defeated in a joust and compelled to forswear knight errantry, Quixote returns home.

In search of Don Quixote

of his acquaintance in disguise, Don Quixote, tired and disillusioned, returns to La Mancha and, shortly before his death, renounces books of knight - errantry.

Don Quixote

At the end of part one, when the pair returns home, Sancho reveals in conversation with his wife, in which he speaks of "senorias, insulas y vasallos," that he has been bitten by the bug of knight errantry and enjoys the life he has adopted as Don Quijotes squire, a life measured in episodic adventures.

Playing with time: asynchronicity in Don Quijote

Indeed, throughout his writings Glissant eloquently pleads for tactics of errantry and nomadology, which he deploys against the discourses of sameness.

Common grounds: The hyphen in lieux-communs (common-place) is a crazy root that pushes you beyond the edges. A forward moving root that keeps you in place

I only devote myself to making the world understand its error in not restoring that happiest of times when the order of knight errantry was in flower" (345/464).

Modernity, madness, disenchantment: Don Quixote's hunger

For a while now I've been working on love in several guises, struck by the sheer variety of ways in which different cultures in different times and places keep this space of rational immunity open and yet protected, by the uncanny errantry of its labor--the ways it conjures myths of domesticity and safety that can heighten its fragility--and by its lasting, singular bravado.

Love, the great leveller, or the fortunes of excellence in the University

Although knight errantry is there ridiculed, the novel nevertheless shows what were the necessary attributes of knights.

Courtly love in the world "without a hero": W. M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair

Finally, "saint errantry," although not of Sterne's coining, was one of his favorite phrases (it appears m two other sermons, and an early political piece--see Notes 70-71).