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Knightless vs Nightless - What's the difference?

knightless | nightless |

As adjectives the difference between knightless and nightless

is that knightless is (rare|obsolete) unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous while nightless is without night.

knightless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare, obsolete) Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
  • *:Whereof thou […] all knights hast shamed with this knightlesse part.
  • (uncomparable) Without a knight.
  • * 1890 , (Ouida), Othmar. Friendship. And other stories (page 545)
    • This night, when the Lady Joan sternly bade her knight attend the knightless damsels to their home, Ioris obeyed.
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  • * 2010 , Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary (page 300)
    • The knightless armor moved toward Rocky. When it was just a few feet away, the visor of the helmet opened and the loudest and scariest shriek anyone could every(SIC) imagine came out of the helmet.
  • * 2012 , Jonathan H. Grossman, Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel (page 220)
    • shining the heroics of a latterday Don Quixote upon a knightless age

    nightless

    English

    Adjective

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  • Without night.

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