knightless

adj — 2 senses

knightless

adj

UK /ˈnʌɪtləs/

Etymology From knight + -less.

1

Obsolete, Rare Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous.

Whereof thou […] all knights hast shamed with this knightlesse part.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

2

Without a knight.

This night, when the Lady Joan sternly bade her knight attend the knightless damsels to their home, Ioris obeyed.1890, Ouida, Othmar. Friendship. And other stories, page 545:
Janowski vs. Jaffe Match, New York, 1917 / Classical Tartakower / Knightless middlegame, queenside strategy2005, Eric Schiller, The Rubinstein Attack!: A Chess Opening Strategy for White, page 28:

2 more examples

The knightless armor moved toward Rocky. When it was just a few feet away, the visor of the helmet opened and the loudest and scariest shriek anyone could every^([sic]) imagine came out of the helmet.2010, Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary, page 300:
shining the heroics of a latterday Don Quixote upon a knightless age2012, Jonathan H. Grossman, Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel, page 220:

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