chivalrousness
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What I am denying is that Americans have any greater reverence for women, any higher chivalrousness, than Englishmen.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
The latter course might have been most deadly of all, had it not been tempered with a certain chivalrousness which abode in Mary Ellen's heart.
From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Emerson Hough
She was more than content with Cora's abandonment of him, though, as chivalrousness was not demanded of her, she would have preferred that he should have been the jilt.
From The Flirt by Booth Tarkington
To a rare simplicity of manner he added a chivalrousness of spirit that was almost an inspiration to those who were brought into contact with him.
From Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid
His love, his forbearance, his chivalrousness had been in vain.
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
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