How do you pronounce chivalrous?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɪv.əl.ɹəs/.

Where does chivalrous come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

/ˈʃɪv.əl.ɹəs/

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

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"Among boys there are laws of honour and chivalrous codes, not written, or formally taught, but intuitively understood by all, and invariably acted upon by the loyal and the true."
"“I would then never have known what minute, or by whom, I was to be attacked next. But the brutes are more chivalrous than man—they do not stoop to cowardly intrigue.”"
"It amazed me that I could have allowed myself to be let in for a binge of this description simply because a woman wished it. Too bally chivalrous for our own good, we Woosters, and always have been."

From Middle English chivalerous, from Old French chevalerous; see chivalry.

more chivalrous (comparative) most chivalrous (superlative)

chivalrously chivalrousness nonchivalrous semichivalrous superchivalrous

unchivalrous