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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



... sighs shall consecrate; in shape Of some fair tomb, here will I heap the turf And call it Adelbright's. Yon aged yew, Whose rifted trunk, rough bark, and gnarled roots Give solemn proof of its high ancientry, Shall canopy the shrine. There's not a flower, That hangs the dewy head, and seems to weep, As pallid blue-bells, crow-tyes and marsh lilies, But I'll plant here, and if they chance to wither, My tears shall water them; there's not a bird That trails a sad soft note, as ringdoves do, Or ...
— Lives of the English Poets - From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of - Johnson's Lives • Henry Francis Cary



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