"knightless" meaning in English

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          "text": "Whereof thou […] all knights hast shamed with this knightlesse part.",
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        "Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous."
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        "(rare, obsolete) Unbecoming of a knight; unchivalrous."
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          "ref": "1890, Ouida, Othmar. Friendship. And other stories, page 545:",
          "text": "This night, when the Lady Joan sternly bade her knight attend the knightless damsels to their home, Ioris obeyed.",
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          "text": "Janowski vs. Jaffe Match, New York, 1917 / Classical Tartakower / Knightless middlegame, queenside strategy",
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          "ref": "2010, Dennis W. Shepherd, The Papaw Diary, page 300:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2012, Jonathan H. Grossman, Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel, page 220:",
          "text": "shining the heroics of a latterday Don Quixote upon a knightless age",
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        "Without a knight."
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        "(not comparable) Without a knight."
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