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- noun UK A man who has been
knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organized Orders of Chivalry; the lowest rank of knight in the British honours system.
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Again, knighthood, the oldest kind of dignity, is also the lowest; and Knight Bachelor, which is the lowest order of knighthood, is more ancient than any other of the orders.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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