Crossword clues for knighthood
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knighthood \Knight"hood\, n. [Knight + hood: cf. AS. chihth[=a]d youth.]
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The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry. ``O shame to knighthood.''
--Shak.If you needs must write, write C[ae]sar's praise; You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays.
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The whole body of knights.
The knighthood nowadays are nothing like the knighthood of old time.
--Chapman.Note: ``When the order of knighthood was conferred with full solemnity in the leisure of a court or court or city, imposing preliminary ceremonies were required of the candidate. He prepared himself by prayer and fasting, watched his arms at night in a chapel, and was then admitted with the performance of religious rites. Knighthood was conferred by the accolade, which, from the derivation of the name, would appear to have been originally an embrace; but afterward consisted, as it still does, in a blow of the flat of a sword on the back of the kneeling candidate.''
--Brande & C.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cnihthad "the period between childhood and manhood;" see knight (n.) + -hood. Sense of "rank or dignity of a knight" is from c.1300, and probably is an independent formation.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An honour whereby one is made into a knight, and one can thereafter be called "Sir" 2 The quality of being a knight. 3 The knights collectively, the body of knights.
WordNet
n. aristocrats holding the rank of knight
Usage examples of "knighthood".
Order of Knighthood has been endeavoring to ameliorate and elevate the condition of womankind.
Morgan Brock has just arrived in Hong Kong and is flaunting his knighthood that he only acquired by persuading his heirless father-in-law to adopt him who then, conveniently and almost at once thereafter, died.
Soapy and a knighthood, while his period as Minister of Technological Development had been rewarded by an early retirement and the Mastership of Porterhouse.
If knighthood misconceived King Arthur then, men do not misconceive him now.
It will be hours of argument with that rule-bound precisian Androctus, hours of searching for precedent in the Solamnic Measure of Knighthood.
King Troven altered the emphasis of his military, pouring men and money into the cavalla, the mounted troops descended from old knighthood, for he judged that force could best deal with the ever-mounted Plainspeople.
Flung into the foreign environment, he had proved himself a true soldier son, for he learned what he must know by doing it, and ignored the disdain of some of his fellows that he had come to the cavalla but was not descended from the old knighthood.
Our cavalla had to be forced to embrace the musketry and marksmanship that flouted the traditions of old knighthood.
In the same year in which the British Association held its first meeting, Brewster received the honour of knighthood and the decoration of the Guelphic order of Hanover.
He informed them of the success that had recently attended the English forces under the Earl of Hertford and the lord admiral, Sir John Dudley, whom he had left as deputy of Boulogne, and dismissed them to their homes after conferring upon the mayor the honour of knighthood.
He thrust one foot forward and looked over his folded arms at the prickspur adorning his heel, symbol of mature knighthood.
Gobred from pushing on in the direction in which the latter knew that the true Sepulcher lay, and for nearly seven and a half centuries the descendants of Bohun have prevented the descendants of Gobred from pushing on and rescuing the Holy Land from the Saracen, while the descendants of Go-bred have prevented the descendants of Bohun from returning to England, to the dishonor of knighthood.
With them also were the pick of the Gascon chivalry--the old Duc d'Armagnac, his nephew Lord d'Albret, brooding and scowling over his wrongs, the giant Oliver de Clisson, the Captal de Buch, pink of knighthood, the sprightly Sir Perducas d'Albret, the red-bearded Lord d'Esparre, and a long train of needy and grasping border nobles, with long pedigrees and short purses, who had come down from their hill-side strongholds, all hungering for the spoils and the ransoms of Spain.
The trees were low and Gwalchmai saw a turreted castle ahead, magnificent with fluttering pennons and showy flags, emblazoned with the fantastic emblems of Elfdom’s knighthood, and ramping unicorn of Queen Crede’s lineage high above all.
It had been a singular privilege, arrogated by the people of Rome, to confer upon their citizens the order of knighthood.