knightly

[US]/'naɪtlɪ/
[UK]/'naɪtli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. характерный для рыцаря; рыцарский и honorable
adv. рыцарским образом

Example Sentences

a knightly code of honor

рыцарский кодекс чести

he displayed knightly courage

он проявил рыцарский мужество

she was dressed in a knightly costume

она была одета в рыцарский костюм

the knightly order of the Round Table

рыцарский орден Круглого стола

Real-world Examples

The boy looked him up and down dubiously. " Are you certain? You don't look very knightly" .

Мальчик с сомнением оглядел его сверху вниз. «Уверены ли вы? Вы не очень похожи на рыцаря».

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Ice and Rain (Bilingual)

The latter two created peace, which removed the challenge of knightly warfare.

Последние двое создали мир, что устранило вызов рыцарским войнам.

Source: Charming history

It is you who must wake it to noble deeds. You must be worthy of knightly worship.

Именно вам предстоит пробудить его к благородным делам. Вы должны быть достойны рыцарского почитания.

Source: Lazy Person's Thoughts Journal

Quite the opposite, they went on their quests because of their own choice, most often driven by the opportunity to display knightly virtues.

Совсем наоборот, они отправлялись в свои похождения по собственному выбору, чаще всего движимые возможностью проявить рыцарские добродетели.

Source: Deep Dive into the Movie World (LSOO)

" And forty more—twenty knights with as many squires. If I arrive without a knightly tail, the Tyrells will think me of small account" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings (Bilingual Edition)

Who wrote the novel Don Quixote, about a 50-year old man travelling Spain in search of knightly adventures in rusty armour and a cardboard helmet?

Source: 6 Minute English

Villain originally meant a peasant farmer, but in a twist of aristocratic snobbery came to mean someone not bound by the knightly code of chivalry and, therefore, a bad person.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

Both Vespasia's family  and the gens Flavia were equestrian families, the second highest class within Roman society, being equivalent to the gentry or knightly class in later times but below the patrician class, the  Roman aristocracy.

Source: Character Profile

To come into the warm enclosed place after the pantheistic animal feeling without, was to reassume some absurd and impressive knightly name, as thunderous as spurred boots in war, as football cleats on the cement of a locker-room floor.

Source: The Night is Gentle (Part Two)

His talk, however, was not particularly knightly; it was light and easy and friendly; it took a practical turn, and he asked a number of questions about herself—what were her tastes—if she liked this and that—what were her habits.

Source: Washington Square

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