Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Ancientness; antiquity; qualities peculiar to that which is old.
- n. Old people: as, “wronging the ancientry,”
- n. Ancient lineage; dignity of birth.
- n. Something belonging or relating to ancient times.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.
- n. archaic Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony.
- n. archaic The olden days; antiquity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Antiquity; what is ancient.
- n. rare Old age; also, old people.
- n. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.
Etymologies
- From ancient. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.”
“'I would that there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting...'”
“I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting — Hark you now!”
“Alderman Constantine, a High Churchman, indignant at being passed over by a junior in the contest for the mayoralty, brought the matter before the Council Board, and produced an old by-law by which aldermen, according to their ancientry, were required to keep their mayoralty.”
“They are the emblem of our country, of its holiness and ancientry, which we wear with pride on this day of each year.”
“I love only that which they defend: the city of the Men of Númenor; and I would have her loved for her memory, her ancientry, her beauty, and her present wisdom.”
“I stepped ahead of Margaret into the fine old room, with its pleasant memorials of ancientry.”
“And of course Mark did stay; a delightful lunch it was too, on chairs covered with blue holland in a green shadowed room that smelt of dryness and ancientry.”
“With what an inimitable air of wisdom, cynicism, ancientry, learned aloofness and desire to be observed do they stroll to and fro across the quads, so keenly aware in their inmost bosoms of the presence of visitors and determined to grant an appearance of mingled wisdom, great age, and sad doggishness!”
“My Sunday at Home is really less important as farce than as evidence of Mr Kipling's enthusiasm for the stillness and ancientry of the English wayside.”
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