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As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective knightless is

(rare|obsolete) unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous.

taxonomy

English

(wikipedia taxonomy)

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

    • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    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