Word Meanings - KNIGHTS-ERRANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• Knight-errant
  A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• Knight-errantries
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• KNIGHTERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian [i. e., conscience] of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'erru
• Knight-errantry
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
• Knight-er-ratic
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
• KNIGHTMARSHAL
  An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties. Wharton.
• KNIGHTSERVICE
  A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
• KNIGHTTEMPLAR
  See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.

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