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Definition of Knighting
1. knight [v] - See also: knight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knighting
Literary usage of Knighting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485) by James Henry Ramsay (1892)
"knighting of the King. Money Grant. Statute. Treaty between Bedford and Gloucester.
... The incident of the Session was the knighting of the ..."
2. Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England by Morley de Wolf Hemmeon (1914)
"THE THREE AIDS: RANSOM, knighting, MARRYING The ransom aid may be briefly dismissed.
... The knighting and marrying aids were unknown, the little baronial ..."
3. Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485) by James Henry Ramsay (1892)
"The incident of the Session was the knighting of the young King, who received
that premature distinction from the sword of his uncle John on Whitsunday (i ..."
4. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"dren'— the 'Woman taken in Adultery'— the 'knighting of Wilton' and a full length
of Washington, small size — 'St. John and Lamb,' a copy — 'Contemplation'— ..."
5. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1854)
"Errors with Regard to the knighting of the Cabots. CABOT was about fifty-three
years of age when he returned to Spain, and, after his wild life in South ..."
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