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knightess rare.|ˈnaɪtɪs| [f. knight n. + -ess1.] a. A woman who fights like a knight. b. A female member of a knightly order. c. The wife of a knight.
a1553Udall Royster D. iv. viii. (Arb.) 78 Too it againe, my knightesses, downe with them all. 1693tr. Emilianne's Hist. Monast. Ord. ii. ii. 238 The Order of the Nuns Knightesses, Sword-bearers of St. James in Spain. 1843Mirror II. 161/2 There is reason to believe that as well as Knights there were knight-esses, or ladies, of that order. 1845Disraeli Sybil ii. ii, The ‘honourable baronetess’..or the ‘honourable knightess’. |