knighting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of knight

plural knightings

1. The act of making somebody a knight.

   Only 14 percent of Australians agreed with the knighting, and many of Mr. Abbott’s colleagues were dismayed.

   2015 February 6, Julia Baird, “Will a Passion for Royalty Ruin a Prime Minister’s Career?”, in The New York Times

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   What distinguished the knighting ceremony from the established giving of arms was the semi-ritualistic character of the later event. It was much more than a coming of age. The most impressive knightings could be occasions of some grandeur.

   2011, Nigel Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England, page 19