vbl. sb. [f. KNIGHT v. + -ING1.] The action of making one a knight; the fact of being knighted.

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1550.  Crowley, Epigr., 491. Woulde God all our knightes dyd minde colinge no more, than this Colier dyd knyghtyng.

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1614.  Selden, Titles Hon., 308. The Honor of taking armes (which in our present idiom may be calld Knighting).

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1705.  Hearne, Collect., 28 Sept. (O. H. S.), I. 50. Upon the Knighting of Dr. Hann’s and … Dr. Wm Read.

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1876.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., V. xxiii. 324. Randolf of Chester was at Henry’s knighting, and did homage to David.

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  b.  attrib., as knighting-sword; † knighting-money = knighthood-money.

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1625.  in Crt. & Times Chas. I. (1848), I. 15. On Monday, Maurice Abbot … had the maidenhead of the king’s knighting sword.

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1641.  Jrnls. Ho. Comm., XI. 145. For the Judges, unto which the Consideration of Knighting-money is referred.

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