Knighting

Verb

1. Present participle of knight

Full definition of knighting

Noun

1. The act of making somebody a knight.
• 2011, Nigel Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England (page 19)What distinguished the knighting ceremony from the established giving of arms was the semi-ritualistic character of the later event. It was much more than a coming of age. The most impressive knightings could be occasions of some grandeur.