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knightly

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His knightly code of chivalry says he cannot refuse what a lady requests, but he also wishes to avoid sacrificing his virtue and potentially losing his life by sleeping with his host’s wife.

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The Daily Pic: The Met's Cloisters branch turns 75, and shows off knightly opulence.

A harder fate awaited the foremost knightly defenders of Kildrummy.

With a chivalry nearly knightly they came to the rescue, and gave woman a free pass into the regions of language and theology.

To sing then a song little Kirsten began, To the tune danced so many a bold knightly man.

The two first were simply intended as displays of knightly skill, and took their rise in the knightly sports of the ninth century.

It is the first time we hear of the Champion; but it was an age of knightly revivals, and this was probably one of them.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to knightly, such as: accommodating, affable, amiable, amicable, approachable, and beneficent.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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