paladin

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Then we have Regé-Jean Page's Xenk Yendar, a paladin so devout and good that it makes him insufferable – which is precisely how paladins should come across in mixed company.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023

Later, when Regé-Jean Page strides into the action as a humorless, hyper-competent paladin, Goldstein and Daley permit our eyes to glaze over as he drones on about arcana that’s impossible to absorb.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

Upon finding a woman’s purse with enough gold to so revolve his predicaments, he chooses to return the windfall, instantly turning into a paladin of honesty worthy of public admiration.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2022

Helpless against the ogre in the white castle looming over their town, they hired Sir Robert, peerless paladin of republican virtue, and sent him forth against the monster.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2019

I leapt upon the animal like an antique paladin, without looking to see whether the bit and trappings were in order.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo