[syn: chivalrous, gallant, knightly]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Knightly \Knight`ly\, a. [AS. cnihtlic boyish.]
Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous;
as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.
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For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit.
--Spenser.
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[Excuses] full knightly without scorn. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Knightly \Knight"ly\, adv.
In a manner becoming a knight.
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And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
knightly
adj 1: characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in
the Middle Ages; "chivalric rites"; "the knightly years"
[syn: chivalric, knightly, medieval]
2: being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn:
chivalrous, gallant, knightly]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "knightly":
aristocratic, big, bighearted, bold, bold-spirited, brave,
ceremonious, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, courtly, doughty,
ducal, elevated, exalted, formal, gallant, generous, genteel,
gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, great, great of heart,
greathearted, handsome, hardy, heroic, herolike, high, high-minded,
idealistic, intrepid, ironhearted, kinglike, kingly, knightlike,
ladylike, largehearted, liberal, lionhearted, lofty, magnanimous,
manful, manly, noble, noble-minded, of gentle blood, of rank,
old-fashioned, old-world, openhanded, patrician, princelike,
princely, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, soldierlike,
soldierly, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, sublime, titled, valiant,
valorous