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Ancientry

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An´cient`ry
n.1.Antiquity; what is ancient.
They contain not word of ancientry.
- West.
2.Old age; also, old people.
Wronging the ancientry.
- Shak.
3.Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.
A gentleman of more ancientry than estate.
- Fuller.
Ancientry elders collectively; antiquities collectively; elders of a parish.
Examples: nobility and ancientry of their houses, 1580; the ancientry of the parish, 1589; cram full of ancientry [‘antiques’], 1866; wronging the ancientry, 1611.


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I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Numenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom.
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