Cavalier vs Knave - What's the difference?
cavalier | knave |
Not caring enough about something important.
* 2003 , Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything'', ''Black Swan , pg.46:
High-spirited.
Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque.
Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I.
A military man serving on horse.
A sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant.
One of the court party in the time of King Charles I, as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament.
A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
A well mannered man; a gentleman.
(archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.
(archaic) Any male servant; a menial.
A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
*1977 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales) , Penguin Classics, p. 204:
*:God's bones! Whenever I go to beat those knaves / my tapsters, out she [my wife] comes with clubs and staves, / "Go on!" she screams — and its a caterwaul — / "You kill those dogs! Break back and bones and all!"
(cards) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.
As nouns the difference between cavalier and knave
is that cavalier is a military man serving on horse while knave is (archaic) a boy; especially, a boy servant.As an adjective cavalier
is not caring enough about something important.cavalier
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The very dignified officials were confused by his cavalier manner.
- Far from marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those school-room maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way.
