chivalric

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Chivalric C.D. is no swordsman; he duels with tennis racquet and walking stick.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chivalric Degrees urge the victory of the spiritual over the material, 856-m.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

France had lost her Chivalric spirit nearly a hundred years before.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

And the Chivalric Degrees have led you on the same path, by showing you the excellence of generosity, clemency, forgiveness of injuries, magnanimity, contempt of danger, and the paramount obligations of Duty and Honor.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Chivalric ideals were regarded as mediæval bric-a-brac and fine sentiments as rubbish.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar