knightshipn.
/ˈnʌɪtˌʃɪp/ 1. † a. The performance of a knight or soldier; military service. Obsolete.† b. Knightly character; valour. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military service > [noun]
knightshipa1175
armsc1300
knighthoodc1384
warfarec1485
service1549
soldiership1561
soldierfare1579
military service1586
stipend1604
caska1616
milice1635
lance1641
militia1641
soldiering1643
camp1725
military1757
a1175 Cott. Hom. 243 Cnihtscipe[L. militia] is manes lif upen eorðe.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13350 Cuðeð eouwer cniht-scipe[c1300 Otho cniht-sipe].
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14405 Of knyght-schipe nobely he proued.
c. The rank or position of a knight; knighthood.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > [noun] > order > knighthood
knighthooda1300
knightheadc1325
chivalry1483
cavalry1601
knightship1620
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 265 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 335 Knihtshipe is acloied and deolfulliche i-diht; Kunne a boy nu breke a spere, he shal be mad a kniht.
1620 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) II. 214 Sir James Whitelocke is gone to be judge of Wales and Chester, which place came not to him gratis, though perhaps his knightship was cast into the bargain.
d. The territory of a knight.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [noun] > of others
thanage14..
thanedomc1425
satrapy1569
chiefery1587
caliphate1614
sultany1639
sagamoreship1670
rajaship1698
ladyship1709
satrapate1717
march1726
sachemdom1764
Nizamat1765
khanate1799
jarldom1820
sultanate1822
knightship1845
sheikhdom1845
sachemship1876
sheikh-ship1878
shahdom1884
chiefship1894
thakurate1901
1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 123 A..government..formed out of the several knightships which were now become absolute and independent sovereignties.
2. With possessive pronoun as a title or form of address.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for knight
sirec1275
sir1297
knightship1694
knighthood1828
1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. v. 17 We have not the Honour to be acquainted with their Knightships.
1831 Keepsake 307 Gout and sixty well-spent years Had made his knightship tame.
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