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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation knight
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
knight .
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When you direct a letter to a knight bachelor -- though it is indeed customary and well-bred to omit altogether the Knt. -- yet it will never be taken amiss should you venture to address him as a Knight of the
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 Various
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His connexion with Mr. Canynge is verified by a deed of the latter, dated 20 October, 1467, in which he gives to trustees, in part of a benefaction of £500 to the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe, "_certain jewells of_ Sir _Theobald Gorges_ Knt." which had been pawned to him for £160.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Gentleman, and Samuel, son of Sir Vincent Gookin, Knt., were buried at
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By Jane, daughter of Sir John Fogge, Knt., he left issue two daughters and coheirs:
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Sir JOHN CHEEKE, Knt., one of the most distinguished scholars and virtuous men of his time: he was tutor to Edward VI, and a zealous protestant, but being induced during the following reign to make a public recantation, his death, which happened soon after, was supposed to have been hastened by shame of that humiliating exhibition.
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IV. for the restitution in blood and estate of Thomas Fulford, Knt. eldest son of Baldewyn Fulford, late of Fulford, in the county of
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Oxon. _, vol.iv. p. 222., that Basse was a native of Moreton, near Thame in Oxfordshire, and was for some time a retainer of Sir Richard Wenman, Knt., afterwards Viscount Wenman, in the peerage of Ireland.
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Gloucester, Knt., eight years, and lived his widow about fifteen; all which time she took a pleasure in mentioning and commending the excellences of Mr. George Herbert.
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I am aware she was the daughter of Ralph Freke, Esq., of Hannington, and married Sir George Norton, Knt. of Abbot's Leigh, in the county of Somerset.
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Granted then to one Richard Snow, of whom the records are silent; by him sold, in Elizabeth's reign, to Sir John Osborne, Knt., thus becoming the ancestral home of our Dorothy.
The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Parry, Edward A 1901
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