Citations:gentrice

Noun: "(archaic) the state or quality of being high-born; gentility"

 * 1824 — Walter Scott, Redgauntlet, Baudry's Foreign Library (1832), page 108:
 * But I am ane that kens full weel that ye may wear good claithes, and have a saft hand, and yet that may come of idleness as weel as gentrice."
 * 1893 — Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, Chapter XIV:
 * "My gentrice has nothing to do with where I lie," said I.
 * 1898 — John Buchan, John Burnet of Barns, John Lane (1898), page 51:
 * I answered as gently as I could that gentrice did not consist in daintiness of eating and drinking or boisterous display, and that in my opinion nothing gave so fine a flavour of gentility as a tincture of letters;
 * 1939 — Harold W. Thompson, Body, Boots, & Britches: Folktales, Ballads, and Speech from Country New York, Syracuse University Press (1979), ISBN 081562218X, page 326:
 * The tragedy, however, as Burke and other British statesmen were to declare, had already been prepared indirectly by Gentlemen Johnny Burgoyne, whose claims to gentrice were as dubious as his talents as a general.
 * 1982 — J. C. Furnas, Fanny Kemble: Leading Lady of the Nineteenth-Century Stage, Dial Press (1982), ISBN 0385272081, page 7:
 * In any case, whether or not Roger partook of genuine gentrice, he spent much of his professional life playing the role of the stage urban gentleman who was [sic] focus of most of the comedy and much of the tragedy of the theater of the eighteenth century.

Noun: "(archaic) high-born individuals collectively; gentry"

 * 1899 — S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas, Chapter XVII:
 * "He may, indeed," drolled the minx, "one can never tell. But he has never said so. He is perhaps afraid, being born without the self-conceit of some people--archers of the guard, fledgling captains,and such-like gentrice."
 * 1902 — John Buchan, The Watcher by the Threshold, George H. Doran Company (1918), page 206:
 * Others would threep she was gentrice, come of a persecuting family in the west, that had been ruined in the Revolution wars.
 * 1913 — Richard Middleton, The Ghost Ship and Other Stories, Mitchell Kennerley (1913), page 16:
 * I don't hold with gentrice who fetch their drink from London instead of helping local traders to get their living."
 * 1966 — Dorothy Dunnett, The Disorderly Knights, Vintage Books (1997), ISBN 9780679777458, page 466:
 * 'Flype a Scott and you find a wee man thumbing his nose at a Kerr. But he pointed out, all power to him, that the lot of ye were no more than playing into the hands of anyone that wanted real power for the asking next to the throne, and no awkward questions from the gentrice.
 * 2006 — Liz Curtis Higgs, Grace in Thine Eyes, WaterBrook Press (2006), ISBN 9780307550859, unnumbered page:
 * This evenin' the gentrice wull be wooin' the baith o' ye."