chivalry
noun
the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms.
chivalries
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pluralof chivalry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It was one of those fallacious chivalries of feeling which are the danger of sensitive and imaginative minds.
From Young Lives by Richard Le Gallienne
Taking the object of Don Quixote to be, what Cervantes declared it—"the causing of the false and silly books of chivalries to be abhorred by mankind"—no book was ever so successful.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd
Whatever he knew to his proposed prisoner's disadvantage, there are niceties of honour in these matters—little chivalries all should observe.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
Man has his courtesies of war, and his chivalries of war; he does not strike the unarmed man; he spares the woman and the child.
From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley
High office brought to him a marked care for those little chivalries which are part of Parliamentary warfare.
From Lloyd George The Man and His Story by Frank Dilnot
