Chivalrous Definition

shĭvəl-rəs
adjective
Having the noble qualities of an ideal knight; gallant, courteous, honorable, etc.
Webster's New World
Of chivalry; chivalric.
Webster's New World
Characterized by consideration and courtesy, especially toward women.
American Heritage

Involving chivalry.

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Origin of Chivalrous

  • From Middle English from the Old French chevalerous; see chivalry

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Chivalrous Sentence Examples

  • Floris was a man of chivalrous character and high.

  • You are such an enigma, one minute all cocky and brash, the next formal and chivalrous.

  • He was too chivalrous to abandon his opponent in an apparent extremity.

  • Since it's not very chivalrous to keep referring to him as an Idiot, ASK IDIOT ABOUT HIMSELF.

  • In 1799 Scott translated Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, the tale of a chivalrous medieval German knight.

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