Sample Sentences for
chivalry
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Out of chivalry when he saw her standing alone.†  (source)
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    The movement is old-fashioned, vaguely chivalrous.†  (source)
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    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)
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    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)
    standard 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.
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    and he urges them to forget the former chivalries of the ingenious gentleman and to fix their eyes on those that are to come, which now begin on the road to El Toboso, as the others began on the plains of Montiel;†  (source)
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    Oh, yes, woman, this was most unchivalrously done ...but by your side, not mine.†  (source)
    standard 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.
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    "Thanks for the chivalry," she said bitterly.†  (source)
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    Surely there's one chivalrous knight, one lord of steadfast heart and courage.†  (source)
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    She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days.†  (source)
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    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)
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