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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages;
- Example: "chivalric rites"
- Example: "the knightly years"
[syn: chivalric, knightly, medieval]

2. being attentive to women like an ideal knight;
[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. [1913 Webster] For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] [Excuses] full knightly without scorn. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Knightly \Knight"ly\, adv. In a manner becoming a knight. [1913 Webster] And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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