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Definition of chivalrous:

  • (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight

Sentence Examples:

If the diggers were rough, they were chivalrous.

We are now the chivalrous breakers of chains.

Where is your chivalrous, courageous, unselfish, devoted lover?

Never was chivalrous crusader so out of place.

"Chivalrous sense of fair play and hates meanness!"

And occasionally they have chivalrous or disreputable brothers.

Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene.

The chivalrous man paid that tax with alacrity.

Thoughtless young dog, but it was all chivalrous.

I have no doubt he achieved it with chivalrous rectitude.

Oh, chivalrous champion of the unhappy and oppressed!

He is received with chivalrous courtesy and unheard-of magnificence.

We meet garrulous vultures, chivalrous monkeys, and so forth.

There was a naturally chivalrous attitude towards dead airmen.

The exposition of his reason is interesting, ingenuous, and chivalrous.

It was an abuse of his chivalrous solicitude for her!

Again she showed a pitiful being, inviting chivalrous forbearance.

This is philanthropy of the right sort, chivalrous philanthropy.

He had shown his chivalrous valor in defending her.

They often laugh among themselves at our chivalrous scruples.

Who better able to wield it in this chivalrous atmosphere?

The postman proved to be more chivalrous than I expected.

This is pure chivalry, and I boast of being chivalrous.

The pageant had really something chivalrous in its arrangement.

The chivalrous but ill-fated peer's presentiments were unfortunately realized.

The English gentleman of Elizabeth was chivalrous and idealistic.

Accounts of chivalrous deeds had an especial charm for her.

"As much as any informer's; it isn't a chivalrous office."

A chivalrous, kindly soul who paid for his chivalry dearly.

He was a man of chivalrous instincts and unchallenged probity.

They are so chivalrous that at times they get tiresome.

The people who colonized South Carolina were brave and chivalrous.

Here was a scheme to captivate an ambitious, chivalrous young prince!

And our officer stepped forward to disarm this chivalrous prisoner.

The chivalrous kindliness of her father's heart was instantly aroused.

I appeal to the chivalrous public to boycott that new road.

It is chivalrous, but not, alas, inflammable in support of innocence.

We cannot too highly commend such a delicate and chivalrous act.

For indeed she loved him and his boyish chivalrous ways.

The characters are bold, knightly, and chivalrous, and delightful entertainers.

Where were the chivalrous chieftains with their clans behind them?

He was of pleasing presence of distinguished decorum, and chivalrous manner.

Mustapha professed a chivalrous admiration for the heroism of the Venetians.

"Generous, chivalrous, and modest, he had a great gift of friendliness."

They were chivalrous when the great ones were lustful and treacherous.

Chivalrous gallantry is not among the peculiar characteristics of excited democracy.

No man can at once be mean and magnanimous, chivalrous and selfish.

She was not a hopeful individual to enlist in a chivalrous enterprise.

It was a cause of inexpressible suffering to his proud, chivalrous nature.

Ah, that was in truth a most worthy and chivalrous act!

Her very grief edged her old, austere, chivalrous acceptance of duty.

And he had a buoyant, boyish, disarming, chivalrous way with him.

Her complete unselfishness always made him feel specially chivalrous towards her.

Suppose you got married to your gentle and chivalrous rancher out West.

He was simply a calm adherent to a lofty and chivalrous code.

She had believed there were such men so unobtrusively generous and chivalrous.

Not that upon which Swift in his chivalrous magnanimity, at once decided.

You know these Anglo-Saxons are always chivalrous to the verge of imbecility.

He is an accurate and picturesque chronicler of that iron, yet chivalrous age.

One feels unwilling to credit the imputation cast on so chivalrous a king.

With this chivalrous testimonial no one could then or will now disagree.

Yet a few days, and the chivalrous Gustavus was to be assassinated.

He was blonde, handsome as a picture, chivalrous, aristocrat through and through.

I know too well the generous, chivalrous instincts of the French people.

His gestures, as he did so, had something exquisitely chivalrous about them.

And here one deplores the conflicts of truth with the chivalrous tradition.

That American men are more thoroughly chivalrous than English is a common belief.

I don't imagine you'll be a chivalrous jackass and want to marry me?

Gustavus Adolphus was brave, enterprising, and chivalrous, but inconsiderate and irascible.

The French were far more chivalrous in their treatment of the dead warrior.

This circumstance had provided the chivalrous Shockley with yet another taunt.

Might was right, without equivocation or disguise, in that heroic and chivalrous age.

The earliest English romances, or novels of chivalrous adventures, are couched in meter.

I could not help owning that his chivalrous bearing suited him admirably.

He was a chivalrous character, and endowed with literary and artistic talents.

The most recklessly chivalrous terms are indeed consonant with Sir Edward's character.

Nowhere did the aristocracy maintain so much of feudal magnificence and chivalrous enjoyment.

American men of the present day are lacking in chivalrous respect for women.

All the more chivalrous to escort them to the tram without a hat!

Arabic literature made the love or erotic note in its tender or chivalrous phase, fashionable.

There were no chivalrous swords ready to leap from the scabbards for her.

He was weak and pompous and fussy with a silly elaborate chivalrous manner.

The atmosphere of the hall impels the cadets to be chivalrous and courteous.

Such were the chivalrous thoroughbred characteristics of these people to the manner born.

He had no chivalrous instinct to offer himself as a sop to conventional honor.

He was chivalrous, he was generous, he was usually incapable of fear or meanness.

There was something truly chivalrous in the magnanimity displayed by these barbarians.

For a moment he believed in himself as the chivalrous rescuer of distressed damsels.

Markham for the story of the dropped garter and the chivalrous motto.

In these prosaic days men who are both brave and chivalrous are few.

Alexander smiled contentedly because the Count was so kind and chivalrous to her.

A warm heart, and a stainless name, shed luster on the chivalrous patriot.

For a chevalier who wears a helmet and sword, that is hardly chivalrous.

It was a brotherly and chivalrous feeling, and it had its own reward.

Chivalrous, strong, yet gentle and ever ready to succor the weak and distressed.

It was in the chivalrous effort to extricate some exposed guns that he fell.

He is simply a chivalrous crank of the South, and we must humor him.

He and a few other poets loved to give their ballads a chivalrous character.

Especially they were brotherly of nature, truly generous of heart, and chivalrous of action.

And her chivalrous lover had struck the lightness forever from her soul.