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Unknightly

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not knightly.

    "There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical."

  2. 2
    Of behaviour, not befitting a knight; ungallant.

Etymology

From un- + knightly.

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