Knightship

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.

    "No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour."

  2. 2
    A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
  3. 3
    Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.

    "Fare your knightship well."

Synonyms

All synonyms
knighthoodsense 1. knighthood

Example

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"No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From knight + -ship.

Etymology 2

From knight + ship.

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