Nine Worthies

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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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Nine Worthies

Is the presentation of the Nine Worthies too absurd in itself to mix well with the courtliness, learning, and elaborate wit of the rest of the Play?

From Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies by Charlotte Endymion Porter

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

From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

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

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

The Nine Worthies, who at our day survive in the Seven Champions of Christendom.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves

The Chevelere Assigne, the ‘Knight of the Swan,’ is historically interesting, as giving the romantic origin of Godfrey the Crusader, who is the last of the Nine Worthies.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker

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