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comparative more errant, superlative most errant
Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits. quotations examples
In that there are just seven Planets or errant Stars in the lower Orbs of heaven: but it is now demonstrable unto sense, that there are many more
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], 6th book, page 244
They were all doomed to be disappointed, however, for the errant engine decided at Stanley junction to spend the remainder of its crowded hour of freedom on the Aberdeen line, and finally came to rest, short of breath, in the dip between Ballathie and Cargill, near the bridge over the Tay.
1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469
Roving around; wandering. examples
Prone to making errors; misbehaving. examples
(chiefly with a negative connotation, obsolete) Obsolete form of arrant (“complete; downright, utter”). quotations
Thy company, if I slept not very well / A nights, would make me an errant fool […]
1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, (please specify |act=I to V)
plural errants
A knight-errant. examples