knightly

adj

1. Of or pertaining to a knight or knights.

   “Where noyse of armes, or vew of martiall guize / Might not reuiue desire of knightly exercize.”

2. Befitting a knight; formally courteous (as a knight); chivalrous, gallant and courtly.

   “knightly combat”

adv

1. In the manner of a knight; chivalrously.

   “Mar. In Gods name, and the Kings, say who yͧ [thou] art. And why thou com'st thus knightly clad in Armes?”

   “Who backs a horse, or bears a hawk, or wears A sword like him! Whose plume nods knightlier?”

   “He, reverencing king's blood in a bad man, Made such excuses as he might, and these Full knightly without scorn; for in those days No knight of Arthur's noblest dealt in scorn.”