chivalrousness
- a word derived from chivalrous.
Example Sentences
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What I am denying is that Americans have any greater reverence for women, any higher chivalrousness, than Englishmen.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
She was more than content with Cora's abandonment of him, though, as chivalrousness was not demanded of her, she would have preferred that he should have been the jilt.
From The Flirt by Tarkington, Booth
"She's noan hurt wi' good looks, our Bess," her father remarked with graceful chivalrousness on more than one occasion, "but hoo con heave a'most as much as I con, an' that's summat."
From "Seth" by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
It exaggerates its own energy and spirit of enterprise, its sense of humour and its chivalrousness towards women.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
I tell you this, your Highness, that in your noble chivalrousness you may not think it necessary to delude yourself and me by the expression of such feelings.
From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
