Englishry en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/ (UK)
- /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/ (US)
Etymology
From English + -ry, in legal senses after Anglo-Norman englescherie, englecherie. Compare Late Latin Anglescheria, Englescheria (“the state of being English”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) Englishness.
Blue-eyed women he believed there were in Kashmir, but here was the mythical Englishry of fair hair as well.
1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 50:It is these people who, taking with them so much furniture and Englishry of all kinds have set up everywhere communities with names like ‘Little England’, ‘Newest England’, ‘England Again’ which are more English than England ever was.
1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, Flamingo 1993 edition, page 635:Yes, [Philip] Larkin was an icon of Englishry, and a fine specimen of its complexes and neuroses: not only arrogant and xenophobic hut also inward-looking, frightened, and depressive.
1993 September 1, Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “An Icon of Englishry”, in The Atlantic:
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(historical, plural, plural-only) Those people living in Ireland or in Wales who are of English descent (chiefly with definite article).
a general massacre of the Englishry
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- (historical, uncountable) The state or privilege of being an Englishman.
- (countable, historical) In medieval Britain, the part of a lordship or other domain inhabited by English people and governed according to English law.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Englishries | Number=Plur | lexicographic |