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Definition of Knightly
1. Adjective. Characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages. "The knightly years"
2. Adjective. Being attentive to women like an ideal knight.
Definition of Knightly
1. a. Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.
2. adv. In a manner becoming a knight.
Definition of Knightly
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a knight or knights. ¹
2. Adjective. Befitting a knight; formally courteous (as a knight); chivalrous, gallant and courtly. ¹
3. Adverb. In the manner of a knight; chivalrously. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Knightly
1. of or befitting a knight [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knightly
Literary usage of Knightly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Education by Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter (1905)
"The knightly and burgher classes attained to a feeling of self-consciousness ...
knightly education stood in the sharpest contrast with that of the Church. ..."
2. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1893)
"The knightly Orders. ... and brought to a head by the movements of the Crusades,
there also arose the Spiritual knightly Orders, especially the Order of S. ..."
3. Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern by John Hewitt (1860)
"And again in the sculpture of knightly Costume, circa 1340. No. 7. f See
Waller's "Brasses," part 10. in our woodcut, No. 23. ..."
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