knighting
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]knighting
- present participle and gerund of knight
Noun
[edit]knighting (plural knightings)
- The act of making somebody a knight.
- 2011, Nigel Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England, page 19:
- What distinguished the knighting ceremony from the established giving of arms was the semi-ritualistic character of the later event. It was much more than a coming of age. The most impressive knightings could be occasions of some grandeur.