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Antonyms for errant


Grammar : Adj
Spell : er-uh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛr ənt



Definition of errant

Origin :
  • mid-14c., "travelling, roving," from Anglo-French erraunt, from two Old French words that were confused even before they reached English: 1. Old French errant, present participle of errer "to travel or wander," from Late Latin iterare, from Latin iter "journey, way," from root of ire "to go" (see ion); 2. Old French errant, past participle of errer (see err). The senses fused in English 14c., but much of the sense of the latter since has gone with arrant.
  • adj wrong; deviant
Example sentences :
  • "True, sir," said I in perfunctory acknowledgment, but with errant thoughts.
  • Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope
  • Usually, I have discovered the errant one—with the help of my guards, of course.
  • Extract from : « Millennium » by Everett B. Cole
  • Their figures, unfixed in the abyss, have been shifted like errant sands of Earth.
  • Extract from : « The Masque of the Elements » by Herman Scheffauer
  • Burns smiled as a king might upon a young knight seeking an errant.
  • Extract from : « The Eagle's Heart » by Hamlin Garland
  • Occasionally some flame would come in pursuit of her errant swain.
  • Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence
  • You must not presume to say that, because I confide to you all my errant thoughts.
  • Extract from : « That Fortune » by Charles Dudley Warner
  • And it is no cheap impunity that he faces in his errant hardihood.
  • Extract from : « Expository Writing » by Mervin James Curl
  • Not that errant light which has misled you, but I, will be your guide.
  • Extract from : « The Quest » by Frederik van Eeden
  • Yet could I not come to speech of hym, but lost my errant with his cheefe men.
  • Extract from : « Diary of Richard Cocks Vol. I » by Richard Cocks
  • All the Stewarts had errant souls, and they loved to wander their kingdom through.
  • Extract from : « The Spell of Scotland » by Keith Clark

Synonyms for errant

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