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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "knightly" in a sentence

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    knightly


    1. “My lady,” Ivar said and knelt before her, bowing his head in a knightly manner


    2. He has his wits disordered by his devoted reading of chivalric romances and sets out in search of knightly adventures with his companion, Sancho Panza, whose short, fat appearance contrasts with that of Don Quixote


    3. The wealth of knightly households had been squashed flat and brought to England


    4. "Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave,


    5. Father Knightly stood on the steps


    6. Father Knightly slowly climbed the stairs, his face grim


    7. Father Knightly circled her, still pointing at her chest


    8. Father Knightly raised his hands for silence


    9. The other rich European cultures did not have this kind of invented knightly solidarity: they had history books that were slightly more honest than Hitler’s history books Germany’s poverty during the Great Depression drew Germans more together as a nation; more than they had ever been before


    10. He could not be reproached for anything because he had lived a perfect knightly life

    11. People actually tried to set living examples of this kind of knightly perfection


    12. Despite the fame and fortune I have accumulated as Roger Knightly, the finest thespian to come


    13. With its overall impressive writing and entertainment value, I, Roger Knightly will keep readers smiling and


    14. Sex Diaries and I, Roger Knightly at his website


    15. satisfied;" and without saying anything more he went and knelt before Dorothea, requesting her Highness in knightly and errant phrase to be pleased to grant him permission to aid and succour the castellan of that castle, who now stood in grievous jeopardy


    16. Don Quixote went off satisfied, elated, and vain-glorious in the highest degree at having won a victory over such a valiant knight as he fancied him of the Mirrors to be, and one from whose knightly word he expected to learn whether the enchantment of his lady still continued; inasmuch as the said vanquished knight was bound, under the penalty of ceasing to be one, to return and render him an account of what took place between him and her


    17. Her mother knew Tess's feeling on this point so well, though no words had passed between them on the subject, that she never alluded to the knightly ancestry now


    18. How stupid he must think her! In an access of hunger for his good opinion she bethought herself of what she had latterly endeavoured to forget, so unpleasant had been its issues—the identity of her family with that of the knightly d'Urbervilles


    19. Dunk had a sudden urge to grab one and pop it like a grape between two steel fingers, but that would not be knightly


    20. Those were the knightly days of our profession, when we only bore arms to succor the distressed, and not to fill men's lamp-feeders

    21. You are a representative of all the most knightly, most refined taste and culture and manners


    22. We are old friends; he is the dearest and best of men, he is a knightly, chivalrous gentleman, and he lives helpless and miserable in the claws of that devil of a woman at Donchanovo! Heaven knows that I persuaded Zina into this marriage by putting it to her that she would be performing a great and noble action


    23. My knightly exploits, however, were all over in an instant or it would have gone badly with the knight


    24. A careful and well written life of this knightly soldier


    25. He considered himself not only un homme tres comme il faut, but also a man of knightly honour


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    Synonyms for "knightly"

    chivalrous gallant knightly chivalric medieval

    "knightly" definitions

    characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages


    being attentive to women like an ideal knight