unknight

verb

unknight

verb

Etymology From un- + knight.

1

To deprive of knighthood.

[I cannot believe] he was unknighted so long, besides the improbability that he would condescend to such an office.a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

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