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unknights

unknights is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 unknights

What is unknights the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unknights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unknight.

Words near unknights in the dictionary

  1. unknighted
  2. unknighting
  3. unknightlike
  4. unknightliness
  5. unknightly
  6. unknights
  7. unknit
  8. unknits
  9. unknittable
  10. unknitted
  11. unknitting

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