knighthood

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But sheerly for services to buyers of paperbacks, this knighthood is as deserved as they come.

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  1. noun The rank, dignity, or vocation of a knight.
  2. noun Behavior or qualities befitting a knight; chivalry.
  3. noun Knights considered as a group.

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  • Olympic hero Chris Hoy talks about his knighthood, awarded as part of the New Year Honours list. —  Shropshire Star
  • But sheerly for services to buyers of paperbacks, this knighthood is as deserved as they come. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • The knighthood, which is reported to have been on Gordon Brown's personal recommendation, came months after Sir Fred led RBS to a record annual profit of £6. 2bn. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • Irish Immigration Center in Boston, said the honorary knighthood was about more than Ireland. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • It beggars belief that a knighthood is being bestowed upon a man whose words have justified and whose actions have facilitated the murder not only of hundreds of innocents, but of the Queen's uncle (- in-law), Lord Mountbatten of Burma. —  Cranmer
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  1. from Middle English knyghthod, kniʒthod, knihthed, knighthood (with the special sense of knight), from Anglo-Saxon cnihthād, boyhood, from cniht, boy, + hād, condition: see knight and -hood.
 

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