rare. [f. CHIVALRY + -IST.] An admirer of mediæval chivalry.
1876. H. W. Torrens, in Calcutta Rev., VI. Misc. Notices, p. xix. Among the knights that were supporting him, not one, but conceived his first duty as a chivalrist was to fight for himself.
1862. All Year Round, VII. 24 May, 259/2. I wish the philo-chivalrists to learn what the Sir Launcelots and the Elaines actually were, and how they lived.
1876. Cleveland Leader, 5 Dec., 4/3. They thought that the Northern abolitionists were a race of deluded serfs whom it was the duty of the Southern chivalrists to exterminate.
