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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[OE.

erraunt

errant

errand

, equiv. to E.

errant

wandering, which was first applied to vagabonds, as an

errant rogue

, an

errant thief

, and hence passed gradually into its present and worse sense. See

Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated;

as, an

arrant

rogue or coward

I discover an

arrant

laziness in my soul.

Fuller.

Thorough or downright, in a good sense.

[Obs.]

arrant

honest woman.

Burton.

Adj.

[I know not the origin of this word.]

Notorious, in an ill sense; infamous; mere; vile; as an arrant rogue or coward.