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Meaning of knightless | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
/ˈnʌɪtləs/

Definitions

  1. Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous.
    obsolete, rare
  2. Without a knight.
    not-comparable

Examples

“Whereof thou […] all knights hast shamed with this knightlesse part.”
“This night, when the Lady Joan sternly bade her knight attend the knightless damsels to their home, Ioris obeyed.”
“Janowski vs. Jaffe Match, New York, 1917 / Classical Tartakower / Knightless middlegame, queenside strategy”
“The knightless armor moved toward Rocky. When it was just a few feet away, the visor of the helmet opened and the loudest and scariest shriek anyone could every^([sic]) imagine came out of the helmet.”
“shining the heroics of a latterday Don Quixote upon a knightless age”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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