knightliness
IPA: nˈaɪtɫinʌs
noun
- knightly behaviour; chivalry
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Examples of "knightliness" in Sentences
- I recognise in him a magnanimity, a certain knightliness which is very rare.
- Thy knightliness also I hear praised, and am told that nowhere is a better king.
- All my duty to Heaven, mine honour, my good faith, my knightliness, I must forego.
- Of thy knightliness, atone to me for the wrong thou hast done me, and I will avenge it no further.
- But many others, so lost to honour and knightliness were they, performed not their promises, and continued to fight each with the other.
- When York was given "his receipt for the prisoners," an incident happened that shows the true knightliness of character of this untrained mountaineer.
- Sixteen years after her marriage her royal husband died, a worn - out, bloated wreck of one who had been as a youth a model of knightliness and manhood.
- "The Settlers of Karossa Creek" will stir the blood of every lad and stimulate the impulses to patience, endurance, brave daring, and true knightliness.
- He has the stuff in him by nature, for none can deny Clan Diarmaid courage and knightliness; but for four generations court, closet, and college have been taking the heart out of our chiefs.
- It was a kind of "knightliness," if there is such a word, and when I thought about it I realized it was the very same look you had worn when you burst through the hedge after Chuck Woodcock, and again when you came back and threw that rose on my desk.
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