knightly

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: knight=ly

CIDE DICTIONARY

knightly, a. [AS. cnihtlic boyish.].

 Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.  [1913 Webster]
"For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit."  [1913 Webster]
"[Excuses] full knightly without scorn."  [1913 Webster]

knightly, adv. 

 In a manner becoming a knight.  [1913 Webster]
"And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

knightly

aristocratic, big, bighearted, bold, bold-spirited, brave, ceremonious, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, courtly, doughty, ducal, elevated, exalted, formal, gallant, generous, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, hardy, heroic, herolike, high, high-minded, idealistic, intrepid, ironhearted, kinglike, kingly, knightlike, ladylike, largehearted, liberal, lionhearted, lofty, magnanimous, manful, manly, noble, noble-minded, of gentle blood, of rank, old-fashioned, old-world, openhanded, patrician, princelike, princely, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, sublime, titled, valiant, valorous