knightship

knightship

English

Etymology

From knight +‎ -ship.

Noun

knightship (plural knightships)

1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
   • (Can we date this quote?), 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.

2. 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."

Synonyms

• Sense 1. knighthood