unknight

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ knight.

Verb

unknight (third-person singular simple present unknights, present participle unknighting, simple past and past participle unknighted)

1. (transitive) To deprive of knighthood.
   • 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:

     [I cannot believe] he was unknighted so long, besides the improbability that he would condescend to such an office.

References

“unknight”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• thunking