noun. Ancientness; antiquity; qualities peculiar to that which is old.

noun. Old people: as, “wronging the ancientry,”

noun. Ancient lineage; dignity of birth.

noun. Something belonging or relating to ancient times.

noun. Antiquity; what is ancient.

noun. Old age; also, old people.

noun. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.

noun. The quality or fact of being ancient or very old.

noun. Old-fashioned style, elaborate ceremony.

noun. The olden days; antiquity.

"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."

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