† ˈgentlery Obs. rare.
Also 3 genteleri, 5 gentlore, 7 gentilrie.
[f. gentle a. + -ry.]
a. = gentlehood, gentleship. b. = gentry.
| a 1275 Prov. ælfred 708 in O.E. Misc. 138 Þuru þis lore and genteleri, he amendit huge companie. c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 35 Heroun rostyd..Þat a knyȝt is called for gentlore. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xiv. vi. 13 The Nobilitie and Gentilrie. |
| attrib. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xiii. 18 We ar so hamyd..We ar mayde hand tamyd, with thyse gentlery men. |