Nine Worthies

American  

plural noun

1. three pagan, three Jewish, and three Christian heroes mentioned together in medieval romances, usually including Hector, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Joshua, David, Judas Maccabaeus, Arthur, Charlemagne, and Godefroy de Bouillon.

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Example Sentences

It will go down easier, I say, if you'll just work in some portraits of our Nine Worthies.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake

Painted with the Nine Worthies, among them King Henry VIII. holding a book, on it inscribed 'Verbum Dei'.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Nymphs and fairies, the Nine Worthies, or the Golden Age might find representation by almost any village pedagog and his school children.

From How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest by Kipling, Rudyard

Has it any relation to what has just been shown of each of them in their attitude towards others with respect to the humble performers of the Mask of the Nine Worthies?

From Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Porter, Charlotte Endymion

Sixteen stanzas, of which stanzas 6 to 14 introduce an independent digression on the Nine Worthies.

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various