单词 | age of chivalry |
释义 | > as lemmasage of chivalry 5. The knightly system of feudal times with its attendant religious, moral, and social code, usages, and practices. age of chivalry: the period during which this prevailed. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] > military code > feudal chivalry1765 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > knightly system in feudal period chivalry1765 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > knightly system in feudal period > period age of chivalry1765 1765 T. Percy Reliques Prelim. Ess. K. Richard I..the great hero of Chivalry. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. i. sig. i The ideas of chivalry, the appendage and the subject of romance, subsisted among the Goths. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 113 The age of chivalry is gone... The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone! View more context for this quotation 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xi. 60 Cervantes smiled Spain's Chivalry away. 1829 Arnold in Life & Corr. (1845) I. 255 If I were called upon to name what spirit of evil predominantly deserved the name of Antichrist, I should name the spirit of chivalry—the more detestable for the very guise of the ‘Archangel ruined’, which has made it so seductive to the most generous minds. 1841 R. W. Emerson Hist. in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 27 The student interprets the age of chivalry by his own age of chivalry. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vii. vi. 256 Chivalry..left upon European manners..a punctilious regard for honour, a generous reverence for justice, and a hatred..of injustice. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. ix. 579 In the eleventh century there arose the celebrated institution of chivalry, which was to manners what feudalism was to politics. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 482 Chivalry..is in morals very much what feudalism is in law; each substitutes..obligations devised in the interests of an exclusive class, for the more homely duties of an honest man and a good citizen. < as lemmas |
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