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gentrice

[ jen-tris ]

noun

Archaic.
  1. gentility; high birth.


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Origin of gentrice1

1175–1225; Middle English gentrise < Old French genterise, alteration of gentelise, equivalent to gentil gentle + -ise -ice
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“Great landlords and sporting gentrice who lived in London or the Riviera most of the year … joined glad hands with a half-baked Celticism which objected to selling any water power to the southern countries of Scotland,” he later recalled.

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Gentrice, 130, 2757, Gentriß, 2790. courtesy, nobleness.

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Did ever you hear that gentrice put money in folk’s pockets?”

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I don't hold with gentrice, who fetch their drink from London instead of helping local traders to get their living.”

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"Pennyland here, pennyland there, they were closer in blood on Black Duncan than any of your shore-side par-tans, who may be gentrice by sheepskin right but never by the glaive."

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