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English
Etymology 1
From knight + -ship.
Noun
knightship (plural knightships)
- The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
1864-1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?: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.
- Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
1899, S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas:Fare your knightship well.
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Etymology 2
knight + ship
Noun
knightship (plural knightships)
- (cellular automata) 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 , in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
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