Definitions for ancientry

ancientry an·cient·ry

Spelling: [eyn-shuh n-tree]
IPA: /ˈeɪn ʃən tri/

Ancientry is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 428 anagrams from letters in ancientry (aceinnrty).

Definitions for ancientry

noun

  1. Archaic. ancient character or style. ancient times.
  2. Obsolete. ancient lineage. old people.

Origin of ancientry

First recorded in 1540-50; ancient1 + -ry

Examples for ancientry

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

I stepped ahead of Margaret into the fine old room, with its pleasant memorials of ancientry.

It seemed odd that it could have kept itself pure in its ancientry among so many upstarts.

And when she reaches it her ancientry and all its tales will be dearer to her than they have been in the past.

This mingling of the beauty of youth and the honour of ancientry runs through all the Irish tales.

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

If in a country town we find an Inn called New, it is a sure sign of ancientry.

ancientry preserves its unbroken descent outside the church.

However this may be, the impression of ancientry is deep and agreeable.

And there is always intruding into the commonplace of the twentieth century some touch of ancientry, some hint of romance.

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