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knightlier

knightlier is the comparative form of knightly.

Meaning of knightly

Adjective

knightly (comparative knightlier, superlative knightliest)

  1. Of or pertaining to a knight or knights.
    • Where noyse of armes, or vew of martiall guize / Might not reuiue desire of knightly exercize.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25
  2. Befitting a knight; formally courteous (as a knight); chivalrous, gallant and courtly.
    • knightly combat

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Questions about knightlier

What is knightlier the comparative form of?
Knightlier is the comparative form of knightly.

Words near knightlier in the dictionary

  1. knightless
  2. knightlet
  3. knightlets
  4. Knightley
  5. Knightleys
  6. knightlier
  7. knightliest
  8. knightlihood
  9. knightlike
  10. knightlily
  11. knightliness

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