Definition of Chivalrous

1. Adjective. Being attentive to women like an ideal knight.

Exact synonyms: Gallant, Knightly
Similar to: Courteous
Derivative terms: Chivalry, Gallant, Knight

Definition of Chivalrous

1. a. Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous.

Definition of Chivalrous

1. Adjective. (context: of a man) honourable, especially to women. ¹

2. Adjective. involving chivalry ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chivalrous

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivalrous

chitters
chittier
chitties
chittiest
chittimwood
chitting
chitty
chitupa
chitupas
chiv
chivachie
chivachies
chivalric
chivalries
chivalrous (current term)
chivalrously
chivalrousness
chivaree
chivareed
chivareeing
chivarees
chivari
chivaried
chivaries
chivariing
chive
chived
chives

Literary usage of Chivalrous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature by JOHN ADDINGTON. SYMONDS (1881)
"chivalrous Poetry—Ideal of chivalrous Love—Bolognese Erudition— New Meaning given to the Ideal—Metaphysics of the Florentine School of ..."

2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"He might go through a form of chivalrous courtesy to a defeated enemy; but he refused to risk the smallest political or military advantage by ..."

3. History of Painting by Karl Woermann (1880)
"The whole realm presided over by the Lady Aventiure, the whole world of chivalrous song and tale, is reproduced in pictures. Even here, however, expression ..."

4. The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"The Red King has indeed this advantage, that the other parts of his character are so bad that ';he chivalrous side of him stands out as a relief, ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... of the benefit society were, of course, altogether innocent of the chivalrous origin of the Horse Shoe Club at Shepton-Mallet. ..."

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