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Knightly   /nˈaɪtli/   Listen
Knightly

adjective
1.
Characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages.  Synonyms: chivalric, medieval.  "The knightly years"
2.
Being attentive to women like an ideal knight.  Synonyms: chivalrous, gallant.






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"Knightly" Quotes from Famous Books



... isn't real!" I exclaimed. "But do let's stop, because such a knightly castle wouldn't be rude enough to ...
— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... into the heavy rain and darkness of the December evening. Anne cried after him, but he too remembering Lot's wife would not turn. He marched on buoyantly, heedless of the wet and the squirting mud from unseen puddles. It was an adventure such as he loved. It was a knightly errand, parbleu! Was he not delivering a beautiful lady from the dragon of calumny? And in an automobile, too! ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke

... peer of Enyalios slayer of men, and after them Eurypylos Euaimon's glorious son; and up rose Thoas Andraimon's son and goodly Odysseus. So all these were fain to fight with goodly Hector. And among them spake again knightly Nestor of Gerenia: "Now cast ye the lot from the first unto the last, for him that shall be chosen: for he shall in truth profit the well-greaved Achaians, yea and he shall have profit of his own soul, if he escape from the fury ...
— The Iliad of Homer • Homer (Lang, Leaf, Myers trans.)

... commanded to tell me everything which you know! My dear Cary, do not be an ass. You are too simple a soul for this rather grubby world. In your eyes every politician is an ardent, disinterested patriot, and every soldier or sailor a knightly hero of romance. Human beings, Cary, are made in streaks, like bacon; we have our fat streaks and our lean ones; we can be big and bold, and also very small and mean. Your great man and your national hero can become very poor worms when, so to speak, ...
— The Lost Naval Papers • Bennet Copplestone

... that it is essentially WORK; both teaching and practising LABOR; and that it is altogether emblematic. Three kinds of work are necessary to the preservation and protection of man and society: manual labor, specially belonging to the three blue Degrees; labor in arms, symbolized by the Knightly or chivalric Degrees; and intellectual labor, belonging particularly to the ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike


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