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Unknightly a. World English Historical Dictionary

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Unknightly a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1926, rev. 2022. Unknightly a. [UN-1 7.]

1   1.  Not appropriate to a knight or to knighthood.

2 c. 1412.  Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 2286. Of suche vnknyghtly trikkes he nat roghte.

3 1423.  James I., Kingis Q., lv. The crueltee of that vnknyghtly dede.

4 1586.  Ferne, Blaz. Gentry, 161. Lewes … had so vnknightlye a regarde … of Armes, that [etc.].

5 1611.  Guillim, Heraldry, II. vi. 56. Base and vnknightly actions and qualities, deserue a base and vnknightly chastisement.

6 1664.  Butler, Hud., II. I. 832. I here … free you from th’ Unknightly Jail.

7 1704.  D’Urfey, Tales, Abradatus & P., I. 12. The dire reward that did belong To him that Acted such unknightly wrong.

8 1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, viii. The unknightly advantage which yonder rascal had taken of his stumbling horse.

9 1860.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt. Part., III. cxlii. 123. A foreign force … threatening to sack, unless unknightly and degrading terms were complied with.

10   2.  Unlike a knight; not having the qualities of a knight.

11 1596.  Spenser, F. Q., V. iii. 35. Vnknightly Knight,… Loe I defie thee.

12 1813.  Byron, Ch. Har., Pref., Add. It has been stated, that … he is very unknightly, as the times of the Knights were times of Love, Honour, and so forth.

13 1842.  Tennyson, Morte d’Arth., 120. Ah,… untrue, Unknightly, traitor-hearted!

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