The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ancientry \An"cient*ry\, n.
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Antiquity; what is ancient.
They contain not word of ancientry.
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Old age; also, old people. [R.]
Wronging the ancientry.
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Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.
A gentleman of more ancientry than estate.
--Fuller.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) The quality or fact of being ancient or very old. 2 (context archaic English) Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony. 3 (context archaic English) The olden days; antiquity.
Usage examples of "ancientry".
Shachim, but in those days there was a curious sort of elbow: unleveled, ancientry furrowed, a last untamed remnant of the original wagon-road, beginning just before the first tollgate I was to reach.
Touching these solemn ancientries, and there, The silent River ranging tide-mark high And the callow, grey-faced Hospital, With the strange glimmer and glamour of a dream!