(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:54:16

Ar"rant (#), a. [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 Errant.]

Notoriously or preeminently 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.

2.

Thorough or downright, in a good sense.

[Obs.]

An arrant honest woman. Burton.

 

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