gentrice
The state or quality of being high-born; gentility.
archaic, uncountable
[…] “Ye neednae tell me,” she said at last—“ye’re gentry.” “Well,” said Alan, softened a little (I believe against his will) by this artless comment, “and suppose we were? Did ever you hear that gentrice put money in folk’s pockets?”
“And where could I get a horse to him?” cried Alan, turning on her with the same appearance of fury. “Would ye have me steal?”High-born individuals collectively; gentry.
archaic, uncountable
Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement. Others would threep she was gentrice, come of a persecuting family in the west, who had been ruined in the Revolution wars.
Where it comes from
From Middle English gentryse, from Old French genterise, variant form of gentelise, from gentil.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry gentrice (CC BY-SA 4.0).