Meaning of knightship | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
2. A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
3. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.

Examples

“No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.”

“Fare your knightship well.”

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