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- noun Plural form of
knightship .
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The scandal involved Tony Blair and senior members of his Government and his Labour Party in the taking of large sums for "donations" and "loans" for honours (knightships and the like) and life peerages (title of baron/baroness with the right to sit and vote in the upper chamber, the House of Lords, of the UK Parliament).
Cash for Peerages: How The Disease That Forced Blair From Office Has Infected Brown 2007
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All that's true enough, good Master Aedituus, quoth Panurge; but we have not the honour to be acquainted with their knightships.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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All that’s true enough, good Master Aedituus, quoth Panurge; but we have not the honour to be acquainted with their knightships.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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All that’s true enough, good Master Aedituus, quoth Panurge; but we have not the honour to be acquainted with their knightships.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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