knightingn.
The action of making one a knight; the fact of being knighted.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > [noun] > investing with a rank or title > conferring of knighthood
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1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Bvi Woulde god all our knightes dyd minde colinge no more, Than this Colier dyd knyghtyng.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 308 The Honor of taking armes (which in our present idiom may be calld Knighting).
1705 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 28 Sept. (O.H.S.) I. 50 Upon the Knighting of Dr. Hann's and..Dr. Wm Read.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiii. 324 Randolf of Chester was at Henry's knighting, and did homage to David.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as knighting sword;
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1625 J. Chamerlain Let. 23 Apr. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 15 On Monday, Maurice Abbot..had the maidenhead of the king's knighting sword.
C2. † knighting-money n. Obsolete = knighthood-money n. at knighthood n. Compounds.
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society > authority > punishment > fine > [noun] > for refusing to be knighted
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1641 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 13 May 20 637 For the Judges vnto wch the consideracion of the Knighting money is referred.
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