knightly Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
    medieval; chivalric.
    • chivalric rites
    • the knightly years
  2. adjective satellite being attentive to women like an ideal knight
    chivalrous; gallant.

WordNet

Knight`ly adjective
Etymology
AS. cnihtlic boyish.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.
    For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser.
    [Excuses] full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.
Knight"ly adverb
Definitions
  1. In a manner becoming a knight.
    And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms. Shak.

Webster 1913