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present participle and gerund of knight examples
plural knightings
The act of making somebody a knight. quotations examples
What distinguished the knighting ceremony from the established giving of arms was the semi-ritualistic character of the later event. It was much more than a coming of age. The most impressive knightings could be occasions of some grandeur.
2011, Nigel Saul, Chivalry in Medieval England, page 19