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knightship|ˈnaɪt-ʃɪp|
[See -ship.]
1.
†a. The performance of a knight or soldier; military service. Obs.
†b. Knightly character; valour. Obs.
c. The rank or position of a knight; knighthood.
d. The territory of a knight.
a1175Cott. Hom. 243 Cnihtscipe [L. militia] is manes lif upen eorðe. c1205Lay. 26747 Cuðeð eouwer cniht-scipe. c1325Poem Times Edw. II 265 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 335 Knihtshipe is acloied and deolfulliche i-diht; Kunne a boy nu breke a spere, he shal be mad a kniht. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14405 Of knyght-schipe nobely he proued. 1620in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) II. 214 Sir James Whitelocke is gone to be judge of Wales and Chester, which place came not to him gratis, though perhaps his knightship was cast into the bargain. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 123 A..government..formed out of the several knightships which were now become absolute and independent sovereignties.
2. With poss. pron. as a title or form of address.
1694Motteux Rabelais v. v. (1737) 17 We have not the Honour to be acquainted with their Knightships. 1831Keepsake 307 Gout and sixty well-spent years Had made his knightship tame. |