† knightlessadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Unbecoming a knight; unknightly.
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unprincely1536
ungentlemanly1562
unprincelike1579
unroyala1586
knightless1590
ungentlemanlike1592
unknightly1596
unkingly1606
unregal1611
ungentlemanny1667
unqueenlike1679
unofficerlike1746
unladylike1766
unquality-like1784
ungentlewomanlike1789
unqueenly1819
unpatriarchal1836
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vi. sig. F5 Thou cursed miscreaunt, That hast with knightlesse guile..Faire knighthood fowly shamed.
?17.. Ld. Ingram xxiii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. lxvi E. 134/2 I laugh at the knightless sport That I saw wi my ee.
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