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Definition of Chivalrousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chivalrousness
Literary usage of Chivalrousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of by Sir Harry Perry Robinson (1908)
"... Criticism—Exaggeration of their Own Virtues—The Myth of American chivalrousness—Whence
it Originated—The Climatic Myth—International Marriages— English ..."
2. Supplement to Genealogies by Edwin Jaquett Sellers (1922)
"Willem van Isendoorn is repeatedly mentioned here but we will confine ourselves
to his chivalrousness by referring to records Nos. 158, 197 and 198, ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"... record of feminine confidence and masculine chivalrousness."—Spectator.
Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. By the same author, ..."
4. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Nay, he even sent a special envoy to Bathory himself, adjuring him by his
chivalrousness, his piety, his Catholic faith, to give way to his Imperial rival. ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Nay, he even sent a special envoy to Báthory himself, adjuring him by his
chivalrousness, his piety, his Catholic faith to give way to his Imperial rival. ..."
6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"But his family, perhaps spoiled by his easiness, inherited that easiness rather
than the chivalrousness, which had kept him free from blame. ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... that her words touched me—how or why I could not hare told—stirred up in me
something of weakness, unselfishness, or chivalrousness—I know not what ..."
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