Antonyms for knight errant


Grammar : Noun
Spell : nahyt-er-uh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnaɪtˈɛr ənt


Definition of knight errant

  • As in knight : noun noble person
Example sentences :
  • Who knows, my knight errant, what adventures may await you and what fortunes?
  • Extract from : « The Suitors of Yvonne » by Raphael Sabatini
  • I hear your knight errant is travelled on strange adventures.
  • Extract from : « The Works of John Marston » by John Marston
  • But perhaps you consider yourself the knight errant of all girls.
  • Extract from : « The Winning Touchdown » by Lester Chadwick
  • He will feel like a knight errant who stakes all his pride on winning.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of Sarek » by Maurice Leblanc
  • I have called the special correspondent the knight errant of the newspaper.
  • Extract from : « The Arena » by Various
  • And all aloud she called Launcelot, for that he seemed a knight errant.
  • Extract from : « Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) » by Thomas Malory
  • "Dear Knight Errant," he read, in the same desperate handwriting.
  • Extract from : « The Swindler and Other Stories » by Ethel M. Dell
  • He determined therefore that he would leave his country, and seek adventure as a knight errant, beyond the sea.
  • Extract from : « French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France » by Marie de France
  • The Duke de Guise might indeed be very aptly compared to a mythological entity, or to a knight errant of the age of chivalry.
  • Extract from : « Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Sutherland Menzies
  • He had a touch of the knight errant in his daily life, although he would never have admitted it; but it was there.
  • Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt » by Henry Cabot Lodge

Synonyms for knight errant

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