Unchivalrous vs Knightless - What's the difference?
unchivalrous | knightless |
(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)
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* 2010 , Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary (page 300)
* 2012 , Jonathan H. Grossman, Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel (page 220)
As adjectives the difference between unchivalrous and knightless
is that unchivalrous is not chivalrous while knightless is unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous.knightless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This night, when the Lady Joan sternly bade her knight attend the knightless damsels to their home, Ioris obeyed.
- 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.
- shining the heroics of a latterday Don Quixote upon a knightless age