Thesaurus / knightly
other words for knightly
- accommodating
- affable
- amiable
- amicable
- approachable
- beneficent
- benevolent
- benign
- benignant
- big-hearted
- bland
- bonhomous
- charitable
- chivalrous
- civil
- compassionate
- complaisant
- congenial
- considerate
- cordial
- courteous
- courtly
- easy
- forthcoming
- friendly
- gallant
- genial
- good-hearted
- good-natured
- hospitable
- indulgent
- lenient
- loving
- merciful
- mild
- obliging
- pleasing
- polite
- sociable
- stately
- suave
- tender
- unctuous
- urbane
- well-mannered
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It is as if the knightly purity of the compassionate face above him has revealed the man to himself in his loathsome degradation.
VAN DYCKESTELLE M. HURLL
Tancredi burlesques the knightly reverence for a stainless scutcheon by the extravagance of his revenge.
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: ITALIAN LITERATUREJOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
But do let's stop, because such a knightly castle wouldn't be rude enough to vanish right before our eyes.
THE MOTOR MAIDALICE MURIEL WILLIAMSON AND CHARLES NORRIS WILLIAMSON
Many a stout spear was hurled upon them, but the bold and lordly warriors warded them in knightly wise.
THE NIBELUNGENLIEDUNKNOWN
Following Balsamo's hint, the baron had donned the insignia of the Knightly Order.
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMAS
But there was nothing so abstract and refined in the nature of knightly virtue as has been generally thought.
THE HISTORY OF CHIVALRY, VOLUME I (OF 2)CHARLES MILLS
We entered Nerac as tillers of the soil, we ride out in knightly fashion.
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW'S EVEG. A. HENTY
As Kuhnert justly observes, the poetry of Homer is knightly.
THE WORLD OF HOMERANDREW LANG
To this knightly company Colonel Lackaday might well belong.
THE MOUNTEBANKWILLIAM J. LOCKE
It was rather an investiture of knighthood for prowess in battle, accompanied with the knightly preparation of fasting and vigil.
THE FIJIANSBASIL THOMSON
WORDS RELATED TO KNIGHTLY
- acclaimed
- celebrated
- chivalrous
- conscientious
- dependable
- distinguished
- eminent
- esteemed
- ethical
- faithful
- forthright
- high-principled
- honest
- honored
- illustrious
- just
- knightly
- law-abiding
- noble
- notable
- of good repute
- on the up-and-up
- principled
- reliable
- respectable
- righteous
- sincere
- sterling
- straightforward
- trustworthy
- truthful
- unstained
- upright
- virtuous
- Santa Claus
- all heart
- altruistic
- beneficent
- benevolent
- big
- bighearted
- bountiful
- charitable
- considerate
- forgiving
- free
- generous
- great
- greathearted
- handsome
- has heart in right place
- high-minded
- kindly
- knightly
- liberal
- lofty
- loose
- munificent
- noble
- openhanded
- selfless
- soft
- soft-touch
- ungrudging
- unselfish
- unstinting
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