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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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And this reassures me that my perception of what has happened so disastrously, so hideously, in my own country is not merely the psychological product of embittered old age, in which the ancientry as a matter of course decry and deride youth as being nothing but the getting of wenches with child and stealing and fighting, but something more accurate and objective.
The end of virtuous Albion by Dalrymple, Theodore / New Criterion
 
 
 
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