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knighthood Noun an honorary title given to a man by the British sovereign in recognition of his achievements Knighthood knights collectively; a military force or host, 1377; knightage, 1840. Examples: knighthood of the battle, 1382; multitude of heavenly knighthood [angels], 1382.
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I ran across him in the street and congratulated him on the knighthood with which his eminent services during the war had been rewarded. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the king during his mayoralty. I had had confidential agents trickling through the country some time, whose office was to undermine knighthood by imperceptible degrees, and to gnaw a little at this and that and the other superstition, and so prepare the way gradually for a better order of things. |
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