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Ancientry   Listen
noun
Ancientry  n.  
1.
Antiquity; what is ancient. "They contain not word of ancientry."
2.
Old age; also, old people. (R.) "Wronging the ancientry."
3.
Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. "A gentleman of more ancientry than estate."






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"Ancientry" Quotes from Famous Books



... ostensibly broad farce, of the Brugglesmith variety—farce which might well call for a chapter to itself were it not that broad farce is much the same whoever the writer may be. 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. The pages of this story distil and drip with peace. Moreover, the story is neighboured with two others, all beckoning Mr Kipling home to Burwash in Sussex. There is the Brushwood Boy, who after work comes home and finds ...
— Rudyard Kipling • John Palmer



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