Knightlet

Quick meaning: Knightlet is a noun meaning A small or petty knight.

Meaning

A small or petty knight.

Example Sentences

Then follow accounts of many misdeeds of different sinners, and the penalties enforced on them, the Church standing up valiantly against the petty chiefs and knightlets which abounded in Wales, though she was well paid for it.

Highborn boys were sent off to another noble household at the age of about seven, to serve strenuously as pages and later as esquires to their lord before they themselves were knighted, looked around for a "lady" and incidentally got married and produced more knightlets, whom they never got to know at all well.

Word Forms

• knightlets

Synonyms for knightlet

Depending on context, synonyms include knightling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include knightling, lordlet, squirelet, kingling, squireling, knight-erratic.

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