knighting

Speech parts

1. knighting - Noun

2. knighting - Verb

Meaning

of Knight

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A smuggler named Davos Seaworth ran the blockade to resupply the castle and Stannis rewarded him by knighting him, but he also cut off the fingertips of his left hand as punishment for all his previous smuggling. Source: Internet

Benjamin Svetkey recently attended a gathering of Jedi in Norris, Texas where he witnessed the 'knighting' of padawon learner Ally Thompson, 28, an Iraqi-war veteran from Tennessee. Source: Internet

This is worse than impromptu haka at the Outback bar in London, worse than letting people poo in our national parks, worse than knighting rugby players, writes Lisa Scott. Source: Internet

John Cummins, citation citation By getting the French diplomat involved in the knighting, Elizabeth was gaining the implicit political support of the French for Drake's actions. Source: Internet

Mary E. Hazard, citation Maria Perry, citation During the Victorian era, in a spirit of nationalism, the story was promoted that Elizabeth I had done the knighting. Source: Internet

The first such honour ever bequeathed on an illustrator or cartoonist, his fellows saw his knighting coming as gratitude for "raising what had been a fairly lowly profession to an unprecedented level of respectability." Source: Internet

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