All 45 Uses of

chivalry

in

The Once and Future King

In the afternoons the programme was: Mondays and Fridays, tilting and horsemanship; Tuesdays, hawking; Wednesdays, fencing; Thursdays, archery; Saturdays, the theory of chivalry, with the proper measures to be blown on all occasions, terminology of the chase and hunting etiquette.†
Book 1

You will have to undress him and put him into a bath hung with rich hangings, and then two experienced knights will turn up—probably Sir Ector will get hold of old Grummore and King Pellinore—and they win both sit on the edge of the bath and give him a long lecture about the ideals of chivalry such as they are.†
Book 1

Or rather, they were whispering in a strange mixture of Gaelic and of the Old Language of chivalry—which had been taught to them because they would need it when they were grown.†
Book 2

What is all this chivalry, anyway?†
Book 2

That is chivalry nowadays.†
Book 2

But it was chivalrous?†
Book 2

"About our conversation on the subject of chivalry," began the King in an airy tone.... I don't recollect such a conversation.†
Book 2

It is about chivalry.†
Book 2

My idea is that if we can win this battle in front of us, and get a firm hold of the country, then I will institute a sort of order of chivalry.†
Book 2

We must breed up a new generation of chivalry for the future.†
Book 2

The chivalry of the Old Ones fought their way from the ruined encampment, hand to hand.†
Book 2

He had them on the run, and saw that he must keep them on it They were indignantly surprised by what they considered an unchivalrous personal outrage —outrageous to be attacked with positive manslaughter, as if a baron could be killed like a Saxon kern.†
Book 2

unchivalrous = not courteous

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.

Yes, and even then it is only a cavalry charge you are thinking of, not a chivalry one.†
Book 2

But there were no longer any organized traces of the chivalry of the Gael.†
Book 2

I want to have an Order of Chivalry, like the Order of the Garter, which goes about fighting against Might.†
Book 3

He had to perfect himself for Arthur as somebody who was good at games, and he had to think about the theories of chivalry even when he was in bed at night He had to teacji himself to possess a sound opinion on hundreds of disputed points —on the proper length of weapons, or the cut of a mantling, or the articulation of a pauldron, or whether cedarwood was better man ash for spears, as Chaucer seems to have believed.†
Book 3

Here is a short, example of the problems of chivalry, which he thought about in his early times.†
Book 3

An effective trick, but a dangerous one—the whole of chivalry argued about it for a long time, some saying that it was unsporting, some that it was fair but too risky, and some that it was a good idea.†
Book 3

His branch of learning was chivalry.†
Book 3

He was speaking formally in the High Language of Chivalry—for in those days there were two kinds of speech like High and Low Dutch or Norman French and Saxon English.†
Book 3

The heavy, straw-stuffed helms of chivalry had such small holes to breathe through that they felt like suffocating.†
Book 3

Another stumbling block to doing as he pleased was the very idea of chivalry or of civilization which Arthur had first invented and then introduced into his own young mind.†
Book 3

Behind you, there might be a savage tournament or faction fight going on, with all the heralds crying out, "Laissez les aller" to ranks of chivalry who were about to charge—a cry which was exactly equivalent to the shout, "They're off!" which is still to be heard at the Grand National today.†
Book 3

Where once, before King Arthur had made his chivalry, the Knight of the Tower Landry had been compelled to warn his daughter against entering her own dining hall in the evening unaccompanied—for fear of what might happen in the dark corners—now there was music and light.†
Book 3

The first sign of the fester was when our chivalry turned into Games-Mania—all that nonsense about who had the best tilting average and so forth.†
Book 3

When he had knighted Melias, he quoth these verra words: 'Now, fair sir,' says he, 'sith ye be come of kings and queens, now look that knighthood be well set in you, for ye ought to be a mirror unto all chivalry!'†
Book 3

It was well for him, with his chivalry and mysticism and all the compensations of the male world, to make the grand renunciation.†
Book 3

There had been the first feeling, a companionship of youth under which Arthur had launched his grand crusade—the second, of chivalrous rivalry growing staler every year in the greatest court of Europe, until it had nearly turned to feud and empty competition.†
Book 3

And in her tone of voice he had read a picture of twenty years' desertion, realizing for the first time that during all that period she had been following his career of chivalry like a schoolchild doting on the batsman Hobbs.†
Book 3

For irt those days love was ruled by a different convention to ours...In those days it was chivalrous, adult, long, religious, almost platonic.†
Book 3

We, who have learned to base our interpretation of love on the conventional boy-and-girl romance of Romeo and Juliet, would be amazed if we could step back into the Middle Ages—when the poet of chivalry could write about Man that he had "en del un dieu, par terre une deesse."†
Book 4

What an amazing time the age of chivalry was!†
Book 4

For the King, or at least this is how Malory interprets him, was the patron saint of chivalry.†
Book 4

Arthur was the heart's king of a chivalry which had reached its flower perhaps two hundred years before our antiquarian author began to work.†
Book 4

The serf of chivalry was not a slave for whom there was no hope.†
Book 4

Lancelot and Guenever looked over the sundown of chivalry, from the tower window.†
Book 4

He did not see a hero of romance, but a plain man who had done his best—not a leader of chivalry, but the pupil who had tried to be faithful to his curious master, the magician, by thinking all the time—not Arthur of England, but a lonely old gentleman who had worn his crown for half a lifetime in the teeth of fate.†
Book 4

"It is a trouble," he said, drawing the old language of knighthood round him like a cloak, "that will aye destroy the flower of chivalry in all the world: a mischief to our noble fellowship: and all by cause of two unhappy knights!"†
Book 4

You don't remember what chivalry used to be before your Arthur started the Table, so you don't know what a genuis you have married.†
Book 4

Lancelot dropped unconsciously into the language of chivalry also.†
Book 4

He wanted the romance and the chivalry and the honour.†
Book 4

He dropped the language of chivalry, falling into the simple tongue.†
Book 4

His Table, his idea of Chivalry, his Holy Grail, his devotion to Justice: these had been progressive steps in the effort for which he had been bred.†
Book 4

Chivalry and justice became a child's illusions, if the stock on which he had tried to graft them was to be the Thrasher, was to be Homo ferox instead of Homo sapiens.†
Book 4

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?
Book 4 *

chivalry = kindness, honor, bravery, and protection of the weak

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Definition:

the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly conduct such as honor, kindness, bravery, and protection of the weak

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courtesy -- especially of men towards women

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