Knightship

Origin

• from knight + -ship

Full definition of knightship

Noun

1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
• , Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her? Chapter , No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.
2. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
• 1899, S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas Chapter , Fare your knightship well."

Synonyms

• Sense 1. knighthood