knightless

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English

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Etymology

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From knight +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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knightless (comparative more knightless, superlative most knightless)

  1. (rare, obsolete) Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous. [16th–18th c.]
  2. (not comparable) 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.
    • 2005, Eric Schiller, The Rubinstein Attack!: A Chess Opening Strategy for White[1], page 28:
      Janowski vs. Jaffe Match, New York, 1917 / Classical Tartakower / Knightless middlegame, queenside strategy
    • 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