Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Age; antiquity; ancientness; seniority.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Age; antiquity.
- noun obsolete Seniority.
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- noun obsolete
age ;antiquity - noun obsolete
seniority
Etymologies
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Examples
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September to steadfast age and virtuous, and winter to ancienty or old age.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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These works he made and many more innumerable virtues and miracles, and he, filled with benewred ancienty of days, by holy perseveration rendered his soul unto our Lord, cui honor et imperium.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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a place _in Parliament and in the Council_, according to the ancienty of his peerage.
The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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[78] "Divers of your noble predecessors, kings of this realm, have given lands to monasteries, to give a certain sum of money yearly to the poor people, whereof for the ancienty of the time they never give one penny.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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