2. Noun. (archaic) High-born individuals collectively; gentry. ¹
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Definition of Gentrice
1. good breeding [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentrice
Literary usage of Gentrice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Chaucer. gentrice (jen'tris), ». ... and have a saft hand, and yet that may come
of idleness as weel as gentrice. ... This lesus of hus gentrice shal ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"... and. yet that may come of idleness as weel as of gentrice," Redgauntlet, i.
222. ... in the following phrase :—" I wadna put it in his gentrice,' Fife. ..."
3. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"Ane Satyre,' 1L 3873, 3874. 26, 27. All gentrice, &c.—All good birth and nobility
are passed away from the ranks of the nobles. ..."
4. Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang (1905)
"But, unlike Burns, he was farouche to an extreme degree; and, unlike Burns, he
carried very far his prejudices about his "gentrice," his gentle birth. ..."
5. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"... of his gentrice . wole iuste in piers armes, In his helme and ... J>M] Jms B
BM Cot. of] in G2. gentrice] ..."
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