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Meaning of unknightly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Not knightly.
  2. Of behaviour, not befitting a knight; ungallant.

Examples

“There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.”

CEFR level

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

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