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unknighting

unknighting is the present participle and gerund of unknight.

Meaning of unknight

Verb

unknight (third-person singular simple present unknights, present participle unknighting, simple past and past participle unknighted)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of knighthood.
    • [I cannot believe] he was unknighted so long, besides the improbability that he would condescend to such an office.a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC

Questions about unknighting

What is unknighting the present participle and gerund of?
Unknighting is the present participle and gerund of unknight.

Words near unknighting in the dictionary

  1. unknew
  2. unknickered
  3. unknifed
  4. unknight
  5. unknighted
  6. unknighting
  7. unknightlike
  8. unknightliness
  9. unknightly
  10. unknights
  11. unknit

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