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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛɹ(ə)nt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɛɹənt/
• Homophone: arrant (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• ハイフネーション: er‧rant

形容詞

errant (comparative more errant, superlative most errant)

1. Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 6th book, page 244:

     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

   • 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Highland Runaway”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:

     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.

2. Roving around; wandering.
3. Prone to erring or making errors; misbehaving.

   We ran down the street in pursuit of the errant dog.

4. (chiefly with a negative connotation, obsolete) Obsolete form of arrant (“complete; downright, utter”).
   • 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     Thy company, if I slept not very well / A nights, would make me an errant fool […]

使用する際の注意点

Although arrant is a variant of errant, their modern meanings have diverged. Arrant is used in the sense “complete; downright; utter” (for example, “arrant knaves”), while errant means “roving around; wandering” and is often used after the noun it modifies (for example, “knight errant”). The use of errant to mean “complete; downright; utter”, and arrant to mean “roving around; wandering”, is obsolete.

別の表記

• arrant (“roving around; wandering”) (obsolete)
• erraunt (obsolete)

派生語

名詞

errant (plural errants)

1. A knight-errant.

参照

Further reading

• “errant, arrant”, in Merriam–Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1994, →ISBN, pages 406–407.
• William Safire (22 January 2006), “On Language: Arrant Nonsense”, in The New York Times Magazine‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 September 2021.
• Paul Brians (2009), “arrant/errant”, in Common Errors in English Usage, 2nd edition, Wilsonville, Or.: William, James & Company, →ISBN.
• “errant”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Tarren, ranter, Ranter, terran, Terran, Ratner