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

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

Lionel evolves a little too conveniently from misfit to paladin, from ally of the marginal and oppressed to their would-be savior.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2019

You dress up as an elf warlock or half-orc paladin.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2018

They had seen Bevis fight like a paladin; and though he was alone they dared not come down.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard