knightless
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Homophone: nightless
Adjective
knightless (comparative more knightless, superlative most knightless)
- (rare, obsolete) Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous. [16th-18th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
- Whereof thou […] all knights hast shamed with this knightlesse part.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:
- (not comparable) Without a knight.
- 1890, Ouida, Othmar. Friendship. And other stories (page 545)
- This night, when the Lady Joan sternly bade her knight attend the knightless damsels to their home, Ioris obeyed.
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- 2010, Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary (page 300)
- The knightless armor moved toward Rocky. When it was just a few feet away, the visor of the helmet opened and the loudest and scariest shriek anyone could every[sic] imagine came out of the helmet.
- 2012, Jonathan H. Grossman, Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel (page 220)
- shining the heroics of a latterday Don Quixote upon a knightless age
- 1890, Ouida, Othmar. Friendship. And other stories (page 545)