knight errantry

Instead, it concludes with Quixote's half-mad paean to knight errantry; reality and illusion remain confused till the end.

In the first place, it was a furtive, underhand blow at this nonsense of knight errantry, though nobody suspected that but me.

President Olivier might be called a visionary or a nuisance; but even his enemies admitted that he was magnanimous to the point of knight errantry.

Of course Bobby's knight errantry was a bit difficult for Moira.

The sentiment was praiseworthy, but the action wasfoolhardy: the object of his knight errantry hardly worthy of suchfierce loyalty.

I laid off your self-destructive knight errantry.

This is not the first time that Mr. Taubman's knight errantry has landed him in trouble.

I am not in this land for knight errantry, but I am here to make head against the King's enemies.

See what his crazy knight errantry had brought about.

Satirical parodies of knight errantry (and contemporary politics) appeared with works such as Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring (c. 1410).