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ˈknighting, vbl. n.
[f. knight v. + -ing1.]
The action of making one a knight; the fact of being knighted.
1550Crowley Epigr. 491 Woulde God all our knightes dyd minde colinge no more, than this Colier dyd knyghtyng. 1614Selden Titles Hon. 308 The Honor of taking armes (which in our present idiom may be calld Knighting). 1705Hearne Collect. 28 Sept. (O.H.S.) I. 50 Upon the Knighting of Dr. Hann's and..Dr. Wm Read. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiii. 324 Randolf of Chester was at Henry's knighting, and did homage to David.
b. attrib., as knighting sword; † knighting-money = knighthood money.
1625in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 15 On Monday, Maurice Abbot..had the maidenhead of the king's knighting sword. 1641Jrnls. Ho. Comm. XI. 145 For the Judges, unto which the Consideration of Knighting-money is referred. |