Definition of Chivalry

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Chivalry

A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.

The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.

The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.

A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.

Exploit.

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Chivalry Quotations

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Edmund Burke

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de Balzac

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Freda Adler

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Horatio Alger

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Horatio Alger

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
James Weldon Johnson

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
Lytton Strachey

The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.
Dustin Diamond

Chivalry Translations

chivalry in French is chevalerie
chivalry in German is Rittertum
chivalry in Swedish is ridderlighet

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