Ancientry

Quick meaning: Ancientry is a noun meaning (archaic) The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.

Meaning

(archaic) The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony.
2. (archaic) Elderly people, elders, ancients (collectively).
3. (archaic) Something ancient (countable); ancient things (collectively).
4. (archaic) The olden days; antiquity.

Example Sentences

PEN, made of reed, cut, &c. like our pens, is of classical ancientry; but the first certain account of quill pens is in 636, in Isidore.

So he and Miss Vezzis were married with great state and ancientry; and now there are several little D'Cruzes sprawling about the verandahs of the Central Telegraph Office.

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting—

Shuffling from ceremony to ceremony, his sere head raised against its natural desire to drop forward on his chest and covered with as many pits and fissures as a cracked cheese, he personifies the ancientry of his high office.

Word Forms

• ancientries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include auncientry, antientry, archaicity, archaicness, antiquity, ancienty.

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