Englishry

From English +‎ -ry, in legal senses after Anglo-Norman englescherie, englecherie. Compare Late Latin Anglescheria, Englescheria (“the state of being English”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃɹi/
• Hyphenation: Eng‧lish‧ry

Englishry (uncountable)

1. (now historical) Those people living in Ireland who are of English descent (chiefly with definite article). [from 15th c.]
   • Macaulay

     a general massacre of the Englishry

2. (law, now historical) The state or privilege of being an Englishman. [from 17th c.]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)

3. Englishness. [from 19th c.]
   • 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, Flamingo 1993 edition, page 635:

     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.

• presentment of Englishry