Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a knight of.
- To address as a knight, or by the title Sir.
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- verb transitive, rare To
make aknight of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The key here is that we have certain abilities capabilities rights as human beings (bearing a child is one a woman has that a man does not) and that our Constitution does not beknight any of us, but rather it specifies some Rights so nobody can misconstrue that they aren't included.
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I’m happy to beknight them all — though at the risk of being accused of being a Leninist — but I think you have my name attached to someone else’s quote.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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Mark Field: I’m happy to beknight them all — though at the risk of being accused of being a Leninist — but I think you have my name attached to someone else’s quote.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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Mark Field: I’m happy to beknight them all — though at the risk of being accused of being a Leninist — but I think you have my name attached to someone else’s quote.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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I’m happy to beknight them all — though at the risk of being accused of being a Leninist — but I think you have my name attached to someone else’s quote.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics 2010
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Well, if by that, they’re implicitly drawing a distinction with journalists... aka “gerbilists” they should beknight the guy who invented that term... then it’s a distinction without a difference.
chrisjones commented on the word beknight
v. tran. - to hold in high esteem (esp. when inappropriately)
I prefer the reflexive construction.
EG:
"There once was a man so beknighted
that he never knew when he’d been slighted
so he went to a party
and ate just as hearty
as if he’d been really invited"
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January 8, 2007