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verbunknight (third-person singular simple present unknights, present participle unknighting, simple past and past participle unknighted)
present singular third person unknights · participle present unknighting · participle past unknighted · past unknighted
- transitiveTo deprive of knighthood.
[I cannot believe] he was unknighted so long, besides the improbability that he would condescend to such an office.
a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC
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