What's the difference between chivalry and nobility?

Chivalry


Definition:

  • (n.) A body or order of cavaliers or knights serving on horseback; illustrious warriors, collectively; cavalry.
  • (n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry.
  • (n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc.
  • (n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord.
  • (n.) Exploit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (2) Twelve months ago, Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Kevin, was in every multiplex as Thor , he of the unreconstructed chivalry and massive mallet.
  • (3) But the most surprising thing was the wording in the crimson ring: FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE, this order of chivalry's motto.
  • (4) We are so much happier and rested now, and this arrangement lends itself to chivalry; on days when I arrive in the bedroom exhausted to find the fortress has been made for me, I feel spoilt indeed.
  • (5) Mr Osborne's hero, a self-pitying, self-dramatising intellectual rebel who drives his wife away, takes a mistress and then drops her when his wife crawls back, will not be thought an edifying example of chivalry.
  • (6) We have already gone through the excruciating experience of having the Queen herself wean us off the teat of the British honours system, a fixture of Australian distinction and chivalry that remained well after those fruity awards had turned rancid.
  • (7) Johnson was a puncher-boxer and dandy; Dempsey an uncomplicated hitter; Tunney had grace and nerve and fast feet; Louis’s fast hands punched in a blur of combinations, and he had a killer instinct as well as chivalry; Marciano had relentless oomph and steam-hammer cruelty.
  • (8) The age of chivalry is dead.” The novel’s theme, deftly laid out in a narrative that flashes backwards and forwards, to and from the 1930s, is the education of six wonderfully distinctive, heartless and romantic 10-year-old girls (Monica, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, and Eunice) and the covert classroom drama that leads to Miss Brodie’s “betrayal”, her peremptory dismissal from Marcia Blaine by her great enemy, the headmistress, Miss Mackay.
  • (9) Sampson found his book piled high alongside Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in From The Cold , Mary McCarthy's The Group , and Arthur Bryant's The Age of Chivalry .
  • (10) A few years ago, my novel Dodger took the reader back to times long gone to meet famous names of fact and fiction, and brought them together on a journey – ultimately – of chivalry.
  • (11) President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s office said in a statement: “History will never forget his numerous achievements in the defence of Arabism and Islam; acts which he performed with honour, honesty and sincerity, guided by truth, justice, chivalry and courage.
  • (12) Not unless you entertain some outdated idea of chivalry, I suppose.
  • (13) Jihad “promises adventure and asserts that the codes of medieval heroism and chivalry are still relevant,” Creswell and Haykel write.
  • (14) Younger women put a greater emphasis on physical characteristics in defining the conceptions and were more likely to note chivalry as an important factor between the sexes.
  • (15) To be specific, sexism is when men let you jump the queue and get on a crowded bus first in Delhi (to confuse matters further, that's called chivalry) and then the poor dears, willy nilly, get crushed up against you as their hands "accidentally" cup your breasts in a frenzy of misogyny.
  • (16) Men – some of them – stand up when a woman enters the room, behaviour originating in medieval codes of chivalry.

Nobility


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.
  • (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.
  • (n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rather small amount of semen the man ejaculates suggests he is a frequent masturbator.” To my surprise, I sense there is some nobility in Gerald’s enterprise and I recall a book written by a professor who is not quite so brilliant as me, in which Victorian sexual activity was explored through the prism of voyeurism.
  • (2) He is at least as tribal, jingoistic, and provincial as those he condemns for those human failings, as he constantly hails the nobility of his side while demeaning those Others.
  • (3) It displayed, however, nobility to inhibit alpha-chymotrypsin, pepsin, papain and subtilisin BPN'.
  • (4) Already in 1215 itself the Charter had been translated from Latin into French, the vernacular language of the nobility.
  • (5) Weah embraces the familiar imagery of African nobility - the lion - and walks with a clear sense of self-worth through the smoking, potholed streets of Monrovia.
  • (6) Alloys are classified on the basis of 1) normal-fusing (non-porcelain bonding); and 2) high-fusing (porcelain bonding) and on nobility within these two groups.
  • (7) The Vatican talked of "this insult to the nobility of the hearth", and Ed Sullivan on his TV show said, "You can only trust that youngsters will not be persuaded that the sanctity of marriage has been invalidated by the appalling example of Mrs Taylor-Fisher and married man Burton."
  • (8) That's why, this year, it seems like a mistake to ignore the fact that the Olympics are not just a soaring tribute to the nobility of the human spirit; they are a multibillion-dollar business that thrives on a complex international system of trade for everything from merchandising to naming rights to brand partnerships.
  • (9) It may be clever politics to try to preserve what is left of your faux progressive credentials by picking a fight about gay marriage , but the nobility of that cause shouldn't distract from what a pup Britain has been sold.
  • (10) Its significance, however, lies not in the number of casualties but in the nobility of its aspirations and the power of its legacy.
  • (11) Dear Heather I’d love to count you as a supporter of the nobility of the European project but your opening salvo is in part straight Ukip – a bit late to backtrack now!
  • (12) I have never felt comfortable with over-lofty claims for the nobility or honour of our trade.
  • (13) There was, apparently, a storyline about movement and creation and nobility in the Amazon but Lord knows why anyone ever bothers with storylines in such things, considering (a) they are utterly incomprehensible and (b) the only reasons people really watch is to coo at the cute children (of which there were plenty) and watch people on stilts fall over (of which there were none.)
  • (14) The results are combined with prior findings on other commercial alloys to demonstrate the interaction of nobility and microstructure.
  • (15) Like its famous sister, Choquequirao seems to have been a kind of royal estate for Inca nobility, built a generation or two before the Spanish arrived.
  • (16) The results indicate the combinations of nobility, microstructure, and environment most likely to avoid corrosion difficulties.
  • (17) Every class of society was represented, from the Scottish nobility to the typesetters who worked alongside Snare in Reading and remembered his life-or-death passion for the portrait.
  • (18) DNA molecules with stable cruciform structures were generated by heteroduplexing this DNA fragment with mutants altered within the palindromic sequence (C. Nobile and R. G. Martin, Int.
  • (19) Our actions, now, will most certainly define the nobility of our lives and our legacy.
  • (20) Drama in Bahama: Muhammad Ali v Trevor Berbick - in pictures Read more And Ali was resigned to his fate, which gave him an endearing nobility.