ancientry

American  

[eyn-shuhn-tree] / ˈeɪn ʃən tri /

noun

1. Archaic.

   1. ancient character or style.

   2. ancient times.

2. Obsolete.

   1. ancient lineage.

   2. old people.

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Etymology

Origin of ancientry

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

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Altar Steps by Compton MacKenzie

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

From Old Crow by Alice Brown

But 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.

From Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer

I must tell you of a curious little bit of ancientry which I saw at Heaton, which greatly delighted me—a "rush-bearing."

From Records of a Girlhood by Fanny Kemble

What law embalmed in ancientry and honored as of divine origin has been more fruitful of sacrifice and suffering?

From The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by John M. (John Metcalf) Taylor