Englishry

[ing-glish-ree or, often, -lish-]

noun

the fact of being English, especially by birth.
a population that is English or of English descent: the Englishry of Ireland.

Origin of Englishry

1250–1300; late Middle English Englisherie < Anglo-French Englescherie, equivalent to Middle English Englisch English + Anglo-French -erie -ery

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Historical Examples of englishry

Right must you be not to take back with you any of your Englishry—it's no place for them yet.
The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II
Henry James
This law of “Englishry” is often illustrated in old chronicles.
Legal Lore
Various
It was high time that this object should receive the attention of the Englishry of the province as one of his letters indicates.
Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2)
Wiliam Cabell Bruce
It was comprised in one word, which, as Clarendon tells us, was often in the mouths of the Englishry of that time.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Everything Saxon was vile, and the word 'Englishry' implied as much contempt and scorn as the word 'Irishry' in a later age.
The Land-War In Ireland (1870)
James Godkin

British Dictionary definitions for englishry

Englishry

noun rare

people of English descent, esp in Ireland
the fact or condition of being an Englishman or Englishwoman, esp by birth

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