• Knightless

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈnʌɪtlÉ™s/
    • Homophones: nightless

    Origin

    From knight + -less.

    Full definition of knightless

    Adjective

    knightless

    1. (rare, obsolete) Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous. 16th-18th c.
      • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.6:Whereof thou … all knights hast shamed with this knightlesse part.
    2. (uncomparable) Without a knight.
      • 1890, Ouida, Othmar. Friendship. And other stories (page 545)This night, when the Lady Joan sternly bade her knight attend the knightless damsels to their home, Ioris obeyed.
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      • 2010, Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary (page 300)The knightless armor moved toward Rocky. When it was just a few feet away, the visor of the helmet opened and the loudest and scariest shriek anyone could every imagine came out of the helmet.
      • 2012, Jonathan H. Grossman, Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel (page 220)shining the heroics of a latterday Don Quixote upon a knightless age
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