chivalryin a sentence
-
•
Ideas of chivalry were popularized in medieval literature.chivalry = the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct such as honor, kindness, bravery, and protection of the weak
-
•
Some women consider is chivalrous when a man opens a door for them. Others find it demeaning.chivalrous = courteous
-
•
Don Quixote wanted to preserve chivalry.chivalry = the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct such as honor, kindness, bravery, and protection of the weak
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
There's nothing hidden in your head The Sorting Hat can't see, So try me on and I will tell you Where you ought to be. You might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at heart, Their daring, nerve, and chivalry Set Gryffindors apart; (source)chivalry = medieval principles governing knightly conduct such as honor, kindness, bravery, and protection of the weak
-
•
This is not to say that either the conduct of war, or the prevailing attitude towards it, has become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous. (source)chivalrous = courteous
-
•
If it was so easy to lead one's country in various directions, as if she was a pig on a string, why had he failed to lead her into chivalry, into justice and into peace? (source)chivalry = kindness, honor, bravery, and protection of the weak
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 6 word variations
-
•
For us a turban is a public symbol of chivalry and Pashtun-ness, and for a man to lose his turban is considered a great humiliation.† (source)
-
•
The movement is old-fashioned, vaguely chivalrous.† (source)
-
•
He chivalrously covered my position as well as his own, so my woolgathering was only interrupted when it was my turn to serve; my team ducked warily out of the way every time I was up.† (source)
-
•
What the women want to talk about the men find disgusting; what the men would say bores the women to tears; and for the men to leave the women would be unchivalrous.† (source)unchivalrous = not courteousstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchivalrous means not and reverses the meaning of chivalrous. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
-
•
"Pass judgment on your chivalries, señor," returned Sancho, "and don't set yourself up to judge of other men's fears or braveries, for I am as good a fearer of God as my neighbours; but leave me to despatch these skimmings, for all the rest is only idle talk that we shall be called to account for in the other world;" and so saying, he began a fresh attack on the bucket, with such a hearty appetite that he aroused Don Quixote's, who no doubt would have helped him had he not been prevented by what must be told farther on.† (source)
-
•
Oh, yes, woman, this was most unchivalrously done ...but by your side, not mine.† (source)unchivalrously = in a manner that is not courteousstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unchivalrously means not and reverses the meaning of chivalrously. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
-
•
What's more, Fatima was fluent in the floral codes that had governed polite society since the Age of Chivalry.† (source)
-
•
By now Stark was no doubt regretting his chivalrous impulse.† (source)
-
•
He attempted chivalrously not to take in the sweep of her body, his eyes holding hers, but of course, as we know often happens in such circumstances, he was unsure as to whether or not he had succeeded, one's gaze being less than entirely conscious a phenomenon.† (source)
-
•
The Chinese traveled luxuriously in his chair, which might have seemed unchivalrous had it not been absurd to picture Miss Brinklow in such a regal setting.† (source)unchivalrous = not courteous
▲ show less (of above)