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English
Etymology
From un- + knightly.
Adjective
unknightly (comparative more unknightly, superlative most unknightly)
- Not knightly.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 31: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.
- Of behaviour, not befitting a knight; ungallant.