ancientry

[ eyn-shuhn-tree ]

noun

1. Archaic.
   1. ancient character or style.
   2. ancient times.
2. Obsolete.
   1. ancient lineage.
   2. old people.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ancientry¹

First recorded in 1540–50; ancient ¹ + -ry

Example Sentences

They contain not word of ancientry.

From Project Gutenberg

A gentleman of more ancientry than estate.

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And there is always intruding into the commonplace of the twentieth century some touch of ancientry, some hint of romance.

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Grandmother Tenney's black blanket shawl was in the parlor chest of drawers, that and her hood, disfiguring ancientry of dress.

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He had seen her, in Venice, on a great occasion, as the centre itself of the splendid Piazza: he had seen her there, on a still greater one, in his own poor rooms, which yet had consorted with her, having state and ancientry even in their poorness; but Mrs. Condrip's interior, even by this best view of it and though not flagrantly mean, showed itself as a setting almost grotesquely inapt.

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