paladiny

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a paladin.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectivepaladiny (comparative more paladiny, superlative most paladiny)

comparative more paladiny · superlative most paladiny

  1. informalrareResembling or characteristic of a paladin.

    I've just never picked up Mazzy before, as she's a little too "paladiny" for my tastes.

    2001 March 11, AJ, “Does it really matter? (SPOILERS)”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)
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    Detect Naughtiness is a little more "paladiny". Instead of straight hostility, it is more specific to the paladin's ethos.

    1997 December 11, Ernest Mueller, “Alignment Debate”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet)

    I'm working on a bit of flavor text involving paladiny beliefs, and I need some ideas on how a paladin in Faerun might come to doubt various aspects of his beliefs, and what parts he would doubt.

    2003 April 17, Stephen Mackey, “Need some paladin-related ideas”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)

    I don't think their ideals were all that paladiny. They were intended to be magical warriors on the side of the church, there just to fight Azash and his followers. […] The were not champions, they were not questers, they lack most of the hallmarks of being paladins beyond "religious martial spellcasters".

    2009 January 1, Keith Davies, “Paladins”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet)

Origin

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APA

paladiny. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paladiny

MLA

“paladiny.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paladiny. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “paladiny,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/paladiny.

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