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For example, he was a model of chivalry, the perfect medieval nobleman.
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The age of chivalry is past; and very fortunate that it is.
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And you must know that with the RAF there is great chivalry.
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Loyalty was lessened, chivalry became extinct; expiring in France with Henri IV.
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The national epic is the expression of the active side of chivalry.
Usage of knightliness in English
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In the retrospect, the attack took on a knightliness of devotion.
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I recognise in him a magnanimity, a certain knightliness which is very rare.
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But your knightliness is due elsewhere; and I commit myself to the fortune of war.
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Thy knightliness also I hear praised, and am told that nowhere is a better king.
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Old Steadfast, there was no denying, had that knightliness.
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All my duty to Heaven, mine honour, my good faith, my knightliness, I must forego.
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Nataly had once admired him for his knightliness toward the weakest women and the women underfoot.
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I sometimes think that it is Ascher's chivalry, his fine knightliness, which has killed his sense of humour.
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Matty is honorably engaged to a man who is a Bayard for knightliness, and that poor Beatrice is jilted.
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Of thy knightliness, atone to me for the wrong thou hast done me, and I will avenge it no further.
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Vivien was so lost as that goodness, manhood, knightliness, sweet and tall as mountain pines, made no appeal to her.
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His admiration of the heroic deeds of the age of chivalry arose from a certain inherent knightliness in his own character.
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So unabashed in such a presence, he would be tenacious of his purpose and hold to his vow with unflinching knightliness.
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Their spotless blossoms were regarded as symbolising that delicacy of sentiment and blamelessness of life belonging to high courtesy and true knightliness.
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But many others, so lost to honour and knightliness were they, performed not their promises, and continued to fight each with the other.
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Still, that the knightliness may not be, to your mortification, all on one side, I have thought of something for you to grant.